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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:54:02 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: performance impact of various compression schemes on a zvol
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:33:27PM +0100, void wrote:
> What's the perfomance penalty on zvols of compression?
> The impact on the host?
> 
> I've searched and cannot find figures. I'm not looking for exact numbers,
> more rather would zstd-9 or zstd-6 be better, more suited to zvol (compression
> and speed) than lz4, possibly because it's more recent? Or would no
> compression at all be 'best'?

With compression, it's always going to depend on your data.

You might find Rich Ercolani's talk on ZFS compression at last year's
OpenZFS DevSummit useful:

https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2022

-- Brooks



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