[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Adding my own compression to zfs

2007-01-29 Thread Sudarsan
The lzjb compression implementation (IMO) is the fastest one on SPARC Solaris systems. I've seen it beat lzo in speed while not necesarily in compressibility. I've measured both implementations inside Solaris SPARC kernels, and would love to hear from others about their experiences. As some o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS versus VxFS as file system inside Netbackup 6.0 DSSU

2008-01-15 Thread Sri Sudarsan
Regarding the question asked below namely "What happens when the free space reported by ZFS isn't really the free space ?", is there an open bug for this ? Thanks, Sri Paul Kraus wrote: > On 1/15/08, Selim Daoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> with zfs you can compress data on disk ...that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS versus VxFS as file system inside Netbackup 6.0 DSSU

2008-02-13 Thread Sri Sudarsan
Selim, Symantec does support ZFS as DSSU targets. I've also seen a SUN white paper outlining the use of Thumper (Sun X4500) as a NB 6.5 media server, where the best practice was to to configure multiple NB disk storage units to use a distinct ZFS file system. In this case, all the ZFS file sy