ZFS default compression algo for contemporary FreeBSD versions

[Xin Li]

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On 7/4/13 5:22 AM, 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)?
> 
> The manual page is a bit uncertain about this...

No, we do plan to make LZ4 the default though.  Both I and Martin have
pending patches to make LZ4 the default (also for metadata, see my svn
branch) but I get distracted from that recently and have not get a
chance to revisit this yet.

Cheers,

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