Mark Danico wrote:
> Sure, 
> zfs set compression=on rpool
>
> Of course this only compresses items written after compression is turned on.
> On my system when I started to perform the install I opened up a
> terminal and after rpool was created I set the compression to on so that
> it got set before the packages were installed.
>
> If you have already performed the install I'm not sure if there is an 
> easy way
> to have the compression affect the current files so that you can regain some
> of the currently used space. Maybe someone else has an idea on that.
>
>   
See the thread "ZFS root compressed ?" from June 6th. for some suggestions.

Ian.
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