ZFS default compression algo for contemporary FreeBSD versions

Xin Li delphij at delphij.net
Thu Jul 4 20:36:50 UTC 2013


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On 7/4/13 1:27 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 04.07.2013 19:02, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 04/07/2013 18:57 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following:
>>> Yes. Much better in terms of speed.
>> 
>> And compression too.
> 
> Can't really say.
> 
> When the code first appeared in stable I moved two of my machines 
> (desktops) to LZ4 recreating each dataset. To my surprise gain at 
> transition from lzjb was fairly minimal and sometimes LZ4 even
> loses to lzjb in compression size. However better
> compression/decompression speed and moreover earlier takeoff when
> data is incompressible clearly makes lz4 a winner.

I'm interested in this -- what's the nature of data on that dataset
(e.g. plain text? binaries? images?)

Cheers,

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