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On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:15 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2021-02-28 07:38, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
> The reason is or should be, because of its potential cost. That is;
> compression can consume a great deal more CPU cycles. So if the host has
> limited resources, either outright or because of work load. Then compression
> will not be an advantage, and may swamp the system. Further, in several
> implementations several of the settings are somewhat dynamic, and can be
> "tuned".
> Compression being one of them.
>
> Apologies in advance if this question has already been answered. I'm in the
> process of getting caught up on my mail. :-)
>
> --Chris
>
> >
>
> --
> ~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
> ~40yrs of UNIX

Except this easy to easy to change from not compressed to compressed. Setting 
the attribute alone not work. If you think have to do send/recv everything to 
get it compressed is a pleasure task, especially you have to do this every time 
after you installed a new system, I have nothing to say anymore. Why don't it 
just the thing already set to be compressed from the beginning? It will save 
much time and space for the user!

BTW, FreeBSD seemed to turn on lz4 compression by default. Nowadays with modern 
hardware, it's sane to turn it on by default. Your arguments about an old 
system should be dismissed completely. None of the Illumos is for old and weak 
system. Illumos is a resource hog.

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