Re: [zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-31 Thread Torrey McMahon
Sanjeev Bagewadi wrote: Manoj Joseph wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Sanjeev, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:26:52 PM, you wrote: SB> Hi, SB> We were trying out the "compression=on" feature of ZFS and were SB> wondering if it would make SB> sense to have ZFS do compression only on a cer

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-31 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Manoj Joseph wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Sanjeev, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:26:52 PM, you wrote: SB> Hi, SB> We were trying out the "compression=on" feature of ZFS and were SB> wondering if it would make SB> sense to have ZFS do compression only on a certain kind of files (or S

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-31 Thread Manoj Joseph
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Sanjeev, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:26:52 PM, you wrote: SB> Hi, SB> We were trying out the "compression=on" feature of ZFS and were SB> wondering if it would make SB> sense to have ZFS do compression only on a certain kind of files (or SB> rather the otherwa

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Sanjeev, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:26:52 PM, you wrote: SB> Hi, SB> We were trying out the "compression=on" feature of ZFS and were SB> wondering if it would make SB> sense to have ZFS do compression only on a certain kind of files (or SB> rather the otherway around). SB> Our observ

[zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-30 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Hi, We were trying out the "compression=on" feature of ZFS and were wondering if it would make sense to have ZFS do compression only on a certain kind of files (or rather the otherway around). Our observation : - If ZFS finds that it cannot achieve a certain amount of compression it does not