Adam, With the blog entry[1] you've made about gzip for ZFS, it raises a couple of questions...
1) It would appear that a ZFS filesystem can support files of varying compression algorithm. If a file is compressed using method A but method B is now active, if I truncate the file and rewrite it, is A or B used? 2) The question of whether or not to use bzip2 was raised in the comment section of your blog. How easy would it be to implement a plugable (or more generic) interface between ZFS and the compression algorithms it uses such that I can modload a bzip2 compression LKM and tell ZFS to use that? I suspect that doing this will take extra work from the Solaris side of things too... 3) Given (1), are there any thoughts about being able to specify different compression algorithms for different directories (or files) on a ZFS filesystem? And thanks for the great work! Cheers, Darren [1] - http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/gzip_for_zfs_update _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
