For what it's worth, there is a plan to allow data to be scrubbed so that you can enable compression for extant data. No ETA, but it's on the roadmap.
In fact, I was recently reminded that I filed a bug on this in 2004: 5029294 there should be a way to compress an extant file system Adam On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:50:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I have an 800GB raidz2 zfs filesystem. It already has approx 142Gb of data. > >Can I simply turn on compression at this point, or do you need to start > >with compression > >at the creation time? If I turn on compression now, what happens to the > >existing data? > > Yes. Nothing. > > Casper > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
