On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote:
> > There are however a few cases where it will not be optimal.  Eg, 129k files 
> > will use up 256k of space.  However, you can work around this problem by 
> > turning on compression.
> 
> Doesn't ZFS pack the last block into one of a multiple of 512?
> 
> If not, it's a surprise that there isn't a pseudo-compression mode
> available to deal with that.
> 
> -mg
> 

This would certainly be nice.  See:

6279263 We should have a "zeroes" compression algorithm

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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