How is the compression ratio? Have you compared it to NTFS' compression? --- mike t.
----- Original Message ---- > From: andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical > Discussion List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:17:41 > Subject: Re: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas? > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:59 PM, wrote: > > Then you hit the time versus space problem. Extensive use of compression on > the filesystem level will defeat any gains split disks can provide. > > Not exactly. Have used ZFS for quite some time, and one of the > features, compression matters to me since I have lots of compressible > documentations all over the place. > > Have not tested ZFS performance, but did not see any degradations at > all in opening, creating, moving, etc. files around. > > If compression is really a problem, it can be : > * Turned off > * gzip-N .. gzip-9 (ala gzip -1 or -9) compression levels if using > gzip compression on ZFS. > * Not used at all. > > -- > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
