Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS,
Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Mar 11 17:53:14 UTC 2010
In the last episode (Mar 11), Leslie Jensen said:
> The solution for me was to create a raidz which gave me the same amount of
> space. Now I wonder, should I enable compression? Will it affect
> performance?
The default lzjb compression is very fast and won't consume much CPU. If
you have lots of easily-compressabe data it should improve performance.
> Later I want to share this pool with SAMBA. Will SAMBA see the pool as a
> filesystem?
I don't think Samba cares about the filesystem layout, since it's a userland
daemon.
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Dan Nelson
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