Re: [zfs-discuss] Observations about compressability of metadata L2ARC

2010-03-01 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Feb 21, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > I don't see why this couldn't be extended beyond metadata (+1 for the > idea): if zvol is compressed, ARC/L2ARC could store compressed data. > The gain is apparent: if user has compression enabled for the volume, > he/she expects volume's data t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Observations about compressability of metadata L2ARC

2010-02-21 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
I don't see why this couldn't be extended beyond metadata (+1 for the idea): if zvol is compressed, ARC/L2ARC could store compressed data. The gain is apparent: if user has compression enabled for the volume, he/she expects volume's data to be compressable at good ratio, yielding significant reduct