It must be fine on a small test system, with CPU idling, etc.
I've worked with a few "ZFS appliances" from Sun (256-512TB range, NFS/iSCSI shares, 1-2k clients) and would never enable any advanced features on those (compression, dedup, etc). They were awfully unstable when we did that.
Granted, that was 5 years ago but I don't see any indication this technology has evolved significantly with all the drama surrounding Oracle, licensing, forks, etc. Just not worth the trouble these days, IMHO.
I've worked with a few "ZFS appliances" from Sun (256-512TB range, NFS/iSCSI shares, 1-2k clients) and would never enable any advanced features on those (compression, dedup, etc). They were awfully unstable when we did that.
Granted, that was 5 years ago but I don't see any indication this technology has evolved significantly with all the drama surrounding Oracle, licensing, forks, etc. Just not worth the trouble these days, IMHO.