On 26-Jan-08, at 2:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote: > Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to > Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all, > here is > what I did to set it up: > > I created a four drive raidz array: > > zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d0 c1d1 > > then an extra file system on that: > > zfs create -o mountpoint=/export/data pool/data > > After adding a bit of data (200GB or so), i figured that > compression would > in fact be a good idea: > > zfs set compression=on pool/data > > So far so good, "zfs get all" reports compression to be active. Now > for > the problem: After adding another 300GB of uncompressed .tif > and .bin/.cue > (audio CD) files,
I wouldn't expect very much compression on that kind of data. --Toby > compression ratio is still at 1.00, indicating that no > compression has taken place. Where did I go wrong? Anything I can > do to > get compression back after the cause for the problem has been > fixed? All > the data has been copied across a network, through Samba - set up > according to instructions found in various Solaris forums. > > -- > Joachim > > Hvorfor bruke fremmedord, når det finnes adekvate norske substitutter? > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
