On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> >> Just wondering, why didn't you compress it first? something like >> >> zfs send | gzip > backup.zfs.gz >> > > The 'lzop' compressor is much better for this since it is *much* faster.
Sure, when enabling compression on zfs fs. I'm talking about compressing the zfs send stream. Last time I test, zfs send is always uncompressed regardless of fs compression setting. Thus, compressing it before writing to a file might be beneficial on certain situation. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
