On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mika Borner wrote: >> Leave the default recordsize. With 128K recordsize, >> files smaller than > > If I turn zfs compression on, does the recordsize influence the > compressratio in anyway?
Yes, I believe so. ZFS is not going to try to compress a chunk of data larger than the blocksize since the data might not be compressible. With less data in a block there is less opportunity for redundancy and therefore less opportunity for compression. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss