"Fajar A. Nugraha" <fa...@fajar.net> writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> indeed. I think only programmers will see any substantial benefit >> from compression, since both the code itself and the object files >> generated are easily compressible. > >>> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but why bother enabling >>> compression if the majority (by volume) of user data won't do >>> anything but burn CPU? > > How do you define "substantial"? My opensolaris snv_111b installation > has 1.47x compression ratio for "/", with the default compression. > It's well worthed for me.
I don't really care if my "/" is 5 GB or 3 GB. how much faster is your system operating? what's the compression rate on your data areas? -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
