Thanks Hajo - for some reason I didn't see your post until I'd already
posted up there ^^; obviously you're correct.
I don't see an obvious "close" button here, so I tagged it "invalid".
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Looks like this was an oops on my part - I got it pointed out for me
that piping from /dev/zero to a filehandle results in a sparse file,
which I did not understand and which explains the lack of impact from
*that*.
I verified that compressratio reports properly when dumping highly
compressible