"dedup" operates on the block level leveraging the existing FFS checksums. Read 
"What to dedup: Files, blocks, or bytes" here 
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup

The trick should be that the zcat userland app already knows that it will 
generate duplicate files so data read and writes could be avoided all together.
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