On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:58:33 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote: >>> On the flip side, compression seems to be a very big win. I'm >>> seeing ratios from 1.7 to 2.5x savings and the CPU usage is claimed to >>> be relatively cheap. >> >> >> That's what I am seeing, too. On the fileset I tried to dedup, I'm >> currently seeing a compressratio of 1.51x, which I'm happy with for >> that data. Enabling ZFS compression appears to have negligible >> overheads, so having turned it on is a big win for me. > > I'll ask just in case - you don't have Bacula FD's compression enabled > for these filesets which give these compression ratios, do you?
No, this is just using ZFS option "compression=gzip-9" on the fileset in the pool. Cheers, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
