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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:17:10 +0000
From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
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* Shivaram Upadhyayula (shivaram.u@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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