Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:39:26 +0700 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri@aetern.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makefs -t ffs makes too large image Message-ID: <70579701-7457-46b1-9329-a51eddec51de@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <334195982.20240822182405@yahoo.com> References: <1781435895.20240822135231.ref@yahoo.com> <1781435895.20240822135231@yahoo.com> <d3eb46f1-29cc-4fa0-a346-86e1c5434834@quip.cz> <334195982.20240822182405@yahoo.com>
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Anthony Pankov wrote:
> Hello Miroslav,
>
> You are genius!
>
> But the situation is a very frustrating. It is a default system and I did nothing to turn the compression on.
> So I was absolutely sure that compression is off.
>
> I'm sorry.
> Nevertheless having compression on by default is a very weird decision and is fully unexpected for me. I've never seen a big warning about default value of this vital parameter will be inverted.
>
> On 12 -STABLE:
>
> # zfs get compression
> NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
> ps2 compression off default
>
> On 14-STABLE
>
> # zfs get compression
> NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
> tank compression on default
> tank/bsdsrc compression on default
It came in with the following openzfs commit and probably no one really
noticed as installer turns on compression by default, so I was going to
say it was always that way until I looked up the change :-)
commit 56fa4aa96eb3875f254e93eaef646ea20ba187f9
Author: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Mar 3 13:43:38 2022 -0500
Default to ON for compression
A simple change, but so many tests break with it,
and those are the majority of this.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
Closes #13078
And it looks like it's in FreeBSD starting with 14.0:
$ git branch -a --contains 56fa4aa96eb3875f254e93eaef646ea20ba187f9
* main
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
remotes/origin/main
remotes/origin/pull/956/merge
remotes/origin/releng/14.0
remotes/origin/releng/14.1
remotes/origin/stable/14
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