At last month's OpenZFS Leadership Meeting <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jv2XVYFmBVvG1EGf-9A5HBVsjAYoLIFZAnWHhV-BM/edit?ts=5bb3b66c#>, we discussed turning compression on by default for new pools. There was broad support for this idea. Is anyone interested in taking on this work, to write up the benefits and concerns, implement it and get it integrated?
Here's the video from the meeting: https://youtu.be/dIVGGJaZ7zk And the notes: - Enable compression by default at pool creation (Issue <https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8213>) The idea is to give a better out of the box experience. The downsides are: potential CPU cost (and write performance due to compressing) and new users misunderstanding how the space is used in certain cases. - Igor: There have been issues when root pools are expecting compression to be disabled (on SPARC?) - Allan: This has been the default in FreeBSD installer for ~2 years - Sef: Boot pools need to be different for each platform, but grub doesn’t seem like it needs to be different. Sef supports it being the default. - Compression=on has been the default in FreeNAS for several years; no complaints - *** Someone to take an action item to investigate benefits and issues, and write it up? (Matt will put out a call for someone to take ownership of this) ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tcfdc8da2da71e1c0-M5e2f5443d118ead238f60ed7 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
