On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:33:16 +0100, Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26-Jan-08, at 2:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote:
So far so good, zfs get all reports compression to be active. Now for
the problem: After adding another 300GB of uncompressed .tif and
.bin/.cue
(audio CD) files,
I
I didn't expect miracles, but since WinRAR gave 13% compression
ZFS doesn't compress a block if it can't get a certain amount of return on it.
Since the default compression is less effective than RAR, you can bet ZFS is
seeing much less than 13% return.
I expect everything is working
Why not create a sample dataset and throw some large .txt files out there
and see what happens? That way you'll know for certain if there's some bug
you're hitting, or if it's just not applicable to your current dataset.
On 1/27/08, Joachim Pihl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:11:33 +0100, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't expect miracles, but since WinRAR gave 13% compression
ZFS doesn't compress a block if it can't get a certain amount of return
on it.
Since the default compression is less effective than RAR, you can bet
ZFS is
Joachim Pihl wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:11:33 +0100, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't expect miracles, but since WinRAR gave 13% compression
ZFS doesn't compress a block if it can't get a certain amount of return
on it.
Since the default compression is less effective than RAR, you
Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to
Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all, here is
what I did to set it up:
I created a four drive raidz array:
zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d0 c1d1
then an extra file system on that:
zfs
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:20:01 +0100, Rob Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it won't go back and compress old data, but if you copy
the files, perhaps into a new folder, they will be
compressed on that copy or move.
I can't see why that should help, since the 300GB I added after enabling
On 26-Jan-08, at 2:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote:
Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to
Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all,
here is
what I did to set it up:
I created a four drive raidz array:
zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1
On Jan 26, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote:
So far so good, zfs get all reports compression to be active. Now
for
the problem: After adding another 300GB of uncompressed .tif
and .bin/.cue
(audio CD) files, compression ratio is still at 1.00, indicating
that no
compression has
