On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:33:16 +0100, Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26-Jan-08, at 2:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote:
So far so good, zfs get all reports compression to be active. Now for
the problem: After adding another 300GB of uncompressed .tif and
.bin/.cue
(audio CD) files,
I
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:11:33 +0100, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't expect miracles, but since WinRAR gave 13% compression
ZFS doesn't compress a block if it can't get a certain amount of return
on it.
Since the default compression is less effective than RAR, you can bet
ZFS is
Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to
Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all, here is
what I did to set it up:
I created a four drive raidz array:
zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d0 c1d1
then an extra file system on that:
zfs
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:20:01 +0100, Rob Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it won't go back and compress old data, but if you copy
the files, perhaps into a new folder, they will be
compressed on that copy or move.
I can't see why that should help, since the 300GB I added after enabling
