Thanks for you explanation Fajar. However, take a look on the next lines:
# available ZFS in the system
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
opt 532M 34.7G 290M /opt
opt/zones 243M 34.7G 32K /opt/zones
opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared 243M 34.7G 243M /opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared
static 104K 58.6G 34K /var/www/
# creating a file in /root (UFS)
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=file.bin count=1024 bs=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0545957 s, 19.2 MB/s
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# pwd
/root
# enable compression in some ZFS zone
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# zfs set compression=on opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared
# copying the previos file to this zone
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# cp /root/file.bin
/opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared/root/
# checking the file size in the origin dir (UFS) and the destination one
(ZFS with compression enabled)
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# ls -lh /root/file.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0M Jul 10 13:21 /root/file.bin
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# ls -lh /opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared/root/file.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0M Jul 10 13:22
/opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared/root/file.bin
# the both files has exactly the same cksum!
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# cksum /root/file.bin
3018728591 1048576 /root/file.bin
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# cksum /opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared/root/file.bin
3018728591 1048576 /opt/zones/sct-scw02-shared/root/file.bin
So... I don't see any size variation with this test.
Actually I tried the same with compression=gzip/gzip-6 or even gzip-9
and is always the same. I understand it shouldn't be?
What am I missing or doing wrong?
More info about the system:
root@sct-caszonesrv-07:~# cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10x_u10wos_17b X86
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
Assembled 23 August 2011
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And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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