Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression or lack thereof...

2008-09-07 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 15:08, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should mention that if copying the file causes it to be nicely > compressed, then you can use this to your advantage. Your log-file > rotator can copy the file and delete the original rather than just > renaming it. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression or lack thereof...

2008-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > If the problem is due to the "trickle factor" then you should see that > if you copy a large log file that the filesystem now shows that some > data is compressed. I should mention that if copying the file causes it to be nicely compressed, then you ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression or lack thereof...

2008-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Kenny wrote: > > So I enable the lzjb compression feature and start poring in syslog > files. However the problem appears that the files are not > compressing. A zfs get all command shows compression is "on". My > compressratio reports 1.00 and the files are the same size