Philip Antoniades wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Is it possible to compress the ZFS instance during install of > opensolaris (and if so, how)? > I think what you are asking for is - can the zfs root be a compressed dataset. There is no elegant way to do it at this point. We had thought of including this option at one point but it got dropped. A hacky way is to set compression manually. You can do this while the transfer is going on. Once set, all subsequent transfers will be compressed.
-Sanjay > This would be a really helpful option for those of us installing in > virtual or multi-boot environments where disk space is short - in my > case I am developing a virtualBox disk to be distributed on DVDs (so, > with a 4.6G cap on disk size). > > thanks, > > Philip > > - -- > Philip Antoniades > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MySQL Systems Engineering Manager, NA > Sun Microsystems > New York City > 718.909.4549 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkijsbwACgkQ+c5A37QTh7BDIwCfSMw9lpaMWfyXDilDSI3Z/9Dg > bqEAn03qSxnReUQGP/7GUoIdgpWYU9x8 > =TslY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
