Hello Dave, Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 9:17:30 PM, you wrote:
DJ> you mean c9n ? ;) DJ> does anyone actually *use* compression ? i'd like to see a poll on how many DJ> people are using (or would use) compression on production systems that are DJ> larger than your little department catch-all dumping ground server. i mean, DJ> unless you had some NDMP interface directly to ZFS, daily tape backups for DJ> any large system will likely be an excersize in futility unless the systems DJ> are largely just archive servers, at which point it's probably smarter to DJ> perform backups less often, coinciding with the workflow of migrating DJ> archive data to it. otherwise wouldn't the system just plain get pounded? LDAP servers with several dozen millions accounts? Why? First you get about 2:1 compression ratio with lzjb, and you also get better performance. -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
