On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:19:16AM -0800, Asim Kadav wrote:
> I'm trying to read the ZFS MOS but unable to do so. The compression
> field is set to 3 and does not change with zfs compression=off
> <my_pool_name>. Does this compression have any effect on MOS?
> 

All metadata is compressed using LZJB because it tends to be quite
compressable and the decreased I/O is usually a win for most workloads.
Search for 'os_md_compress' to see how this is used.

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, FishWorks                        http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock

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