* Cyril Plisko ([email protected]) wrote:
> >
> > Grub will boot from a compressed root pool just fine.  So long as it's
> > gzip compressed (which is the default when you turn compression on).
> >
> 
> >From zfs(1M)
> 
>      compression=on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-N
> 
>          Controls  the  compression  algorithm  used   for   this
>          dataset. The lzjb compression algorithm is optimized for
>          performance while  providing  decent  data  compression.
>          Setting  compression to "on" uses the "lzjb" compression
>          algorithm. The "gzip"  compression  algorithm  uses  the
>          same compression as the gzip(1) command. You can specify
>          the "gzip" level by using the value "gzip-N" where N  is
>          an  integer  from  1  (fastest)  to  9 (best compression
>          ratio). Currently,  "gzip"  is  equivalent  to  "gzip-6"
>          (which is also the default for gzip(1)).

Duh.  I had it reversed.  The default is lzjb (which Grub can grok).

You'd think I would get that striaght having run into problems when I
tried to use gzip compression in the past.

Thanks for the cluestick reminder.

-- 
Glenn
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