Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Collins
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:04 +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT/snv_90 in the other window, right after the installation begins, but I would like less hacky way.) what I did was to migrate via live

[zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hi ! As, probably, many of us I am playing with snv_90 and ZFS root. During the installation I didn't see any possibility to set the properties of the datasets. In particular compression. I see that default installation leaves the compression property untouched for all the created datasets, with

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:04 +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: 1. Are there any reasons to *not* enable compression by default ? Not exactly an answer: Most of the systems I'm running today on ZFS root have compression=on and copies=2 for rpool/ROOT 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Elling
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:04 +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: 1. Are there any reasons to *not* enable compression by default ? Not exactly an answer: Most of the systems I'm running today on ZFS root have compression=on and copies=2 for rpool/ROOT I've been

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark J Musante
On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: after install, I'd think you could play games with zfs send | zfs receive on an inactive BE to rewrite everything with the desired attributes (more important for copies than compression). I blogged about something similar about a year ago:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread ian
Bill Sommerfeld writes: 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT/snv_90 in the other window, right after the installation begins, but I would like less hacky way.) what I did was to migrate via live upgrade, creating the pool and the pool/ROOT filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Sommerfeld writes: 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT/snv_90 in the other window, right after the installation begins, but I would like less hacky way.) what I did was to migrate via live

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Ian Collins
Cyril Plisko wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Sommerfeld writes: 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT/snv_90 in the other window, right after the installation begins, but I would like less hacky way.)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Lee
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 06:47 +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Sommerfeld writes: 2. How can I do it ? (I think I can run zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT/snv_90 in the other window, right after the installation begins, but I