> Sizing is measurable rather than guesswork. zdb -bb tank breaks down allocated space by block type; sum the non-data categories and you have your current metadata footprint.

Of course, this is also not a fast command on a slow array; my half full 2x 24TB mirror is estimating ~ 12 hours to run this; the last scrub took just over 24 hours to run. (After I posted, the remaining time dropped to 10 minutes... not as slow as it seemed, but still slow, and using a lot of I/O ... left for lunch and 50 minutes later it's almost done; estimation is hard)