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Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-10 02:13:54
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT serverock DOT ee>
To: <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:53:44 +0200
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:58:33 -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
>> On the flip side, compression seems to be a very big win.  I'm 
>> seeing ratios from 1.7 to 2.5x savings and the CPU usage is claimed to 
>> be relatively cheap.
>
>
> That's what I am seeing, too.  On the fileset I tried to dedup, I'm
> currently seeing a compressratio of 1.51x, which I'm happy with for
> that data.  Enabling ZFS compression appears to have negligible
> overheads, so having turned it on is a big win for me.

I'll ask just in case - you don't have Bacula FD's compression enabled 
for these filesets which give these compression ratios, do you?

--
Silver

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