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Date:      Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:21:37 +0300
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, avg@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS default compression algo for contemporary FreeBSD versions
Message-ID:  <51D576E1.6030803@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041620420.2446@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041620420.2446@woozle.rinet.ru>

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04.07.2013 15:22, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Collegues,
>
> is it sane to just set 'zfs compression=on dataset' to achieve best algo on
> fresh FreeBSD systems (-current and/or stable/9)?

No and this is not safe AFAIK. Default compression is still lzjb and 
bootloader can't boot oof datasets compressed with lzjb. However on 
stable/9 you can simply set zfs compression=lz4 pool and everything 
would work fine if you updated the boot loader.

-- 
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.



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