Is compression impacted when setting block size?

--zoly

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Elling
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:56 PM
To: Louwtjie Burger
Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + DB + default blocksize

Louwtjie Burger wrote:
> Hi
>
> What is the impact of not aligning the DB blocksize (16K) with ZFS,
> especially when it comes to random reads on single HW RAID LUN.
>

Potentially, depending on the write part of the workload, the system may
read
128 kBytes to get a 16 kByte block.  This is not efficient and may be
noticeable
as a performance degradation.

> How would one go about measuring the impact (if any) on the workload?
>

Try it and see if it meets your requirements.
 -- richard

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