Techniques for providing a direct IO path to compressed data on storage media of a storage system. The techniques include triggering a transaction cache to perform a flush operation for updating mapping metadata for a storage object containing the compressed data. Having updated the mapping metadata for the storage object, the techniques further include issuing, by a copier module, an IO read request for the compressed data of the storage object to a namespace layer, which issues the IO read request to a mapping layer. The techniques further include forwarding the IO read request to a logical layer of the mapping layer, bypassing the transaction cache. The techniques further include reading, by the logical layer, the compressed data of the storage object from the storage media, and providing, via the mapping layer and the namespace layer, the compressed data to the copier module for transfer to a destination storage system.