Re: zfs compression on a volume

The cycles are wasted because the data is incompressible.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 8:21 PM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> Hi fs@
>
> If a vm is created in bhyve on a freebsd host, and that vm is
> zvol-backed, and the guest itself is encrypted with for
> example lukfs(?) if it's linux, if the zvol compression
> is set to for example zstd, does the vol get compressed,
> or are cycles wasted compressing the uncompressible?
>
> TIA,
>
>