On 2010-Nov-24 11:07:23 +0100, Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: >Quoting Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> (from Wed, 24 Nov 2010 >06:32:07 +1100): > >> BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - >> recompressing existing data. > >Are you sure the compression is done on the sending side, and not at >the receiving side? I would expect the later (as I can specify a >different compression level on an existing destination, if I remember >correctly).
Sorry, that was poorly worded. The actual send stream is not compressed but the entire filesystem stream will be re-compressed on the receive side as specified by the "compression" parameter on the sending filesystem. -- Peter Jeremy
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