Great, thank you. zdb confirms what we already sort of suspected: the
file is ~12T with only 5.5G of real content. I was aware that ZFS
reported on disk size differently, but the fact that this isn't a
feature of compression threw me off in the output.

 Object  lvl   iblk   dblk  dsize  dnsize  lsize   %full  type
 7    5    16K   128K  5.51G     512  11.1T    0.07  ZFS plain file

At any rate, it's still not clear to me how we arrived at this giant
(but sparse) file, since the VM and image tools (qemu-img) only consider
it to be 10G logical. I'm guessing that the implication is that the bug
is with qemu rather than ZFS. My initial concern was that it had been a
storage layer corruption, but I guess it's equally plausible that
somehow the emulation layer ran wild and just started massively growing
the file out of bounds on disk.

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