I can take a look at doing this, given my current free time. I have to get my linux vm up to date first I think :).
Sean. > On May 16, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]> wrote: > > At last month's OpenZFS Leadership Meeting, 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) > 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 / see discussions + participants + delivery > options Permalink ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tcfdc8da2da71e1c0-M03c798838d90342ff12390bd Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
