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For source clusters that contain PowerScale and Isilon nodes that support inline compression and deduplication, during the dataset creation, the source data is rehydrated, decompressed, and transferred uncompressed to the target cluster. Suppose the target cluster consists of nodes that support inline compression and deduplication. In that case, the replication data goes through the same inline compression and deduplication as any other data that is written to these platforms.