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[Veritas-bu] ZFS

2007-02-02 17:00:59
Subject: [Veritas-bu] ZFS
From: ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham)
Date: 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/
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