Re: makefs -t ffs makes too large image

From: Yuri Pankov <yuri_at_aetern.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:39:26 UTC
Anthony Pankov wrote:
> Hello Miroslav,
> 
> You are  genius!
> 
> But the situation is a very frustrating. It is a default system and I did nothing  to turn the compression on.
> So I was absolutely sure that compression is off. 
> 
> I'm sorry. 
> Nevertheless having compression on by default is a very weird decision and is fully unexpected for me. I've never seen a big warning about default value of this vital parameter will be inverted.
> 
> On 12 -STABLE:
> 
>  # zfs get compression
> NAME                       PROPERTY     VALUE     SOURCE
> ps2                        compression  off       default
> 
> On 14-STABLE
> 
>  # zfs get compression
> NAME                          PROPERTY     VALUE           SOURCE
> tank                          compression  on              default
> tank/bsdsrc                   compression  on              default

It came in with the following openzfs commit and probably no one really
noticed as installer turns on compression by default, so I was going to
say it was always that way until I looked up the change :-)

commit 56fa4aa96eb3875f254e93eaef646ea20ba187f9
Author: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 3 13:43:38 2022 -0500

    Default to ON for compression

    A simple change, but so many tests break with it,
    and those are the majority of this.

    Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
    Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
    Signed-off-by: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
    Closes #13078

And it looks like it's in FreeBSD starting with 14.0:

$ git branch -a --contains 56fa4aa96eb3875f254e93eaef646ea20ba187f9
* main
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  remotes/origin/main
  remotes/origin/pull/956/merge
  remotes/origin/releng/14.0
  remotes/origin/releng/14.1
  remotes/origin/stable/14