Re: {* 05.00 *}Re: Desperate with 870 QVO and ZFS

From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 20:43:49 UTC
On 4/6/2022 4:18 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, egoitz@ramattack.net wrote:
>>>
>>> WE DON'T USE COMPRESSION AS IT'S NOT SET BY DEFAULT. SOME PEOPLE SAY 
>>> YOU SHOULD HAVE IT ENABLED.... BUT.... JUST FOR AVOID HAVING SOME 
>>> DATA COMPRESSED SOME OTHER NOT (IN CASE YOU ENABLE AND LATER 
>>> DISABLE) AND FINALLY FOR AVOID ACCESSING TO INFORMATION WITH 
>>> DIFFERENT CPU COSTS OF HANDLING... WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED COMPRESSION....
>
> There seems to be a problem with your caps-lock key.
>
> Since it seems that you said that you are using maildir for your mail 
> server, it is likely very useful if you do enable even rather mild 
> compression (e.g. lz4) since this will reduce the write work-load and 
> even short files will be stored more efficiently.
>
FYI, a couple of our big zfs  mailspools sees a 1.24x and 1.23x compress 
ratio with lz4.  We use Maildir format as well.  They are not RELENG_13 
so not sure how zstd would fair.

     ---Mike