On Thursday, 15 January 2026, at 8:42 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > One idea is to try to grok zfs send’s serial format, which is a raw block > level stream and try to wed it to venti. And may add a zfsmount command to > serve readonly zfs snapshots directly from venti? > My suspicion is that this is not good for deduplication, because a log of data will be compressed by zfs's own internal compression, and it will probably not be block aligned at proper places, so worse than cpio. Venti-streamchunk might help, but I am surely not going to evaluate this.
AFAIK the zfs stream format is not good for anything else as transporting between zfs systems. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Taf5e3581b0a00ee0-Mba5a1939ef84ce3668746ac2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
