On 2025-05-07 18:38, Olivier Certner wrote:
Hi Xin and all,(snip) Historically, newsyslog compressed rotated log files to save disk space. This was helpful when storage was limited. However, with modern files systems like ZFS providing built-in compression and with larger disks now common, the benefits of additional log compression have diminished, especially given the inconvenience of needing to decompress logs when searching for specific patterns. (snip)... In absence of more elements, I thus stand by the same conclusion as one year ago: The sensible default is to enable compression (for files marked as compressible), and for POLA it is probably to stay with 'legacy', so that compression letters actually mandate the desired compression format. This is what seems to benefit most uses and users by far. In other words, this commit should just be reverted.
While ZFS is one of the strong features for using FreeBSD, more than the half of my setups back /var/log on UFS/FFS. And since bzgrep(1) lives in /usr/bin (just like bzless is), the claim of extra effort to decompress for pattern searching is not correct.
Thank you Oliver, for your much more constructive postings, this is just a 'me wants it reverted too'!
br, -harry
