ZFS default compression algo for contemporary FreeBSD versions

Thu Jul 4 13:21:40 UTC 2013

04.07.2013 15:22, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Collegues,
>
> is it sane to just set 'zfs compression=on dataset' to achieve best algo on
> fresh FreeBSD systems (-current and/or stable/9)?

No and this is not safe AFAIK. Default compression is still lzjb and 
bootloader can't boot oof datasets compressed with lzjb. However on 
stable/9 you can simply set zfs compression=lz4 pool and everything 
would work fine if you updated the boot loader.

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