on the other hand compression MIGHT theoretically speed up access if you CPU(s) compresses / decompresses faster than your disk writes / reads.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. Winelfred G. Pasamba Adventist University of the Philippines Online Information Systems _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
