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    ZFS Clarification on ZFS compression defaults and best practices

    Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the compression property in ZFS and I would appreciate some clarification. I recently created a new ZFS pool with the following command, without specifying any particular options: # zpool create mail da1 da2 When checking the compression settings on...
    • noisev2
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    • lz4 zfs compression
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    • Forum: Storage
  2. grep2grok

    ZFS New to ZFS: transfered 8 TB, only 4.5 TB on disk? Really?

    I enabled lz4 compression (details of pool creation here). Should I really believe that 8 TB of TIFF images on a partition formatted for NTFS is getting nearly 2:1 compression? Because that would be awesome, but I'm afraid to believe it.
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