[Veritas-bu] ZFS
2007-02-02 17:00:59
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[Veritas-bu] ZFS |
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ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham) |
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Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:00:59 -0800 (PST) |
> I'm toying with the idea of running zfs on my DSSU's. This way i can
> compress the data to the dssu as it's being written thus decreasing the
> amount of space needed for the dssu's.
>
> It might not be the best flow
> client -> NB Server -> DSSU write the data with zfs compression
> zfs uncompress -> tape
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has done it.
I haven't, but if you have a lot of extra CPU compared to I/O, it sounds
like it should work. I wouldn't do it on a box that already had high
CPU utilization.
Good luck and let us know how it works.
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Darren Dunham ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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