ZFS/compression/performance

[Shivaram Upadhyayula]

Sorry i didn't know it will be stripped out :-)
http://www.quadstor.com/ietbsd/compression.tgz LZF diff is against
FreeBSD8-STABLE checkout about a week ago.

Cheers,
Shivaram

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst at clara.net> wrote:
> * Shivaram Upadhyayula (shivaram.u at quadstor.com) wrote:
>
>> I have recently started using ZFS and during that time i have tried out
>> ZFS with lzf (http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html) and it seems
>> to perform much better, both in speed and ratio over lzjb.
>>
>> Anyway my point is that, somewhere down the line other compression
>> algorithms should be evaluated. gzip seems slow and it looks like lzjb
>> may not be sufficient. For anyone interested, I have attached some of
>> the tests i had run and the diff for lzf support.
>
> No you haven't :)
>
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> Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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