Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:53:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS, Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers Message-ID: <20100311175307.GA4528@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4B98CA26.4050609@eskk.nu> References: <4B980792.3050103@eskk.nu> <4B981934.9090904@comcast.net> <4B98CA26.4050609@eskk.nu>
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In the last episode (Mar 11), Leslie Jensen said: > The solution for me was to create a raidz which gave me the same amount of > space. Now I wonder, should I enable compression? Will it affect > performance? The default lzjb compression is very fast and won't consume much CPU. If you have lots of easily-compressabe data it should improve performance. > Later I want to share this pool with SAMBA. Will SAMBA see the pool as a > filesystem? I don't think Samba cares about the filesystem layout, since it's a userland daemon. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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