>One thing ZFS is missing is the ability to select which files to compress. yes.
there is also no filesystem based approach in compressing/decompressing a whole filesystem. you can have 499gb of data on a 500gb partition - and if you need some more space you would think turning on compression on that fs would solve your problem. but compression only affects files which are new. i wished there was some zfs set compression=gzip <zfs> , zfs compress <fs>, zfs uncompress <fs> and it would be nice if we could get compresion information for single files. (as with ntfs) >Even a simple heuristic like "don't compress mp3,avi,zip,tar files" that`s already existing. afaik, zfs tries to compress a datablock and if that isn`t compressible enough, it doesn`t store it compressed. it has no "knowlegde" of what type of data a file contains, tough. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
