>> I've read a small amount about compression, enough to find that it'll effect >> performance (not a problem for me) and that once you enable compression it >> only effects new files written to the file system. > > Yes, that's true. Compression on defaults to lzjb which is fast; but gzip-9 > can be twice as good. (I've just done some tests on the MacZFS port on my > blog for more info)
Here's a good blog comparing some ZFS compression modes in the context of the Sun Storage 7000: http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/zfs_compression Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
