Adam Leventhal wrote: > This is a great idea. I'd like to add a couple of suggestions: > > It might be interesting to focus on compression algorithms which are > optimized for particular workloads and data types, an Oracle database for > example.
NB. Oracle 11g has builtin compression. In general, for such problems, solving them closer to the application is better. > It might be worthwhile to have some sort of adaptive compression whereby > ZFS could choose a compression algorithm based on its detection of the > type of data being stored. I think there is fertile ground in this area. As CPU threads approach $0, it might be a good idea to use more of them :-) -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
