From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 00:34:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C7D106564A for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:34:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4D88FC12 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB10YTMw004809; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:34:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id mB10YRSg004806; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:34:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:34:27 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Valentin Bud In-Reply-To: <139b44430811300753o780763c8xf9b4821a837443a1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081201013409.Y4805@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20081128194531.7B17FB7C5@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <20081128212753.D6715@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081128215528.35F4BB7C5@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <139b44430811300753o780763c8xf9b4821a837443a1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: vogelke+software@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5 TB server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:34:37 -0000 > This is one of the main reasons i want to go with ZFS. Another would be the > filesystem level compression of the data. I have noticed that 3dmax > files (one of > the programs the company works with) are very "compressable" (from 50 > Mb to ~ 7Mb). will it be majority of data???