Re: [zfs-discuss] A couple of newbie questions about ZFS compression

2008-11-07 Thread Ross Becker
The compress on-write behavior is what I expected, but I wanted to validate that for sure. Thank you. On the 2nd question, the obvious answer is that I'm doing work where knowing how large the total file sizes tells me how much work has been completed, and I don't have any other feedback whic

Re: [zfs-discuss] A couple of newbie questions about ZFS compression

2008-11-07 Thread Ian Collins
Ross Becker wrote: > I'm about to enable compression on my ZFS filesystem, as most of the data I > intend to store should be highly compressible. > > Before I do so, I'd like to ask a couple of newbie questions > > First - if you were running a ZFS without compression, wrote some files to >

[zfs-discuss] A couple of newbie questions about ZFS compression

2008-11-07 Thread Ross Becker
I'm about to enable compression on my ZFS filesystem, as most of the data I intend to store should be highly compressible. Before I do so, I'd like to ask a couple of newbie questions First - if you were running a ZFS without compression, wrote some files to it, then turned compression on,