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Date:      Thu, 7 Apr 2022 09:43:29 -0400
From:      mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        egoitz@ramattack.net
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Freebsd performance <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: {* 05.00 *}Re: Re: Desperate with 870 QVO and ZFS
Message-ID:  <217020e3-0092-b269-96e4-dd77bdcde110@sentex.net>
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On 4/7/2022 7:25 AM, mike tancsa wrote:
> On 4/7/2022 4:59 AM, egoitz@ramattack.net wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike!
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your comment. I see. As said before, we didn't 
>> really enable compression because we just keep the config as FreeBSD 
>> leaves by default. Apart from that, having tons of disk space and 
>> well... for avoiding the load of compress/decompress... The main 
>> reason was it was not enabled by default really and not to have seen 
>> a real reason for it.... was not more than that....I appreciate your 
>> comments really :)
>
>
> Think of the extreme case where you do something like
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tank/junk.bin bs=1m count=10000
>
> as this is a 20G file that takes just a few hundred bytes of write IO 
> on a compressed system. Obviously, as the compress ratio reduces in 
> the real world the benefits become less.  Where that diminishing 
> return is, not sure.  But something to keep in mind
>
>
You might also want to have a look at this article which I found quite 
helpful


https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs1-understanding-transparent-compression/


     ---Mike





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