> On 22. May 2021, at 20:32, tech-lists <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What options could one pass to zfs to speed it up to characteristics
> favourable to what's usually in /var ? Like lots of fast writes, lots of
> files smaller than what's on /usr, lots of file creation and deletion
> but also quite a few files that might become large, like what's in
> /var/log, things like that.
>
Make sure your pool (or at least the /var file system) has compression=lz4 and
that atime is off, beyond that I wouldn’t bother to try to optimize manually
there, unless you run a database like MySQL in /var/db/…, in which case setting
a fixed record size might make sense.
Best
Michael
> thanks,
> --
> J.
