Re: makefs -t ffs makes too large image
- In reply to: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen : "Re: makefs -t ffs makes too large image"
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:33:32 UTC
Hello Daniel, My impression that compression makes ZFS slower on VM. May be this is the only case of not so-well-optimized VM such as QEMU on Windows. Sunday, September 1, 2024, 11:50:16 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:39:26AM UTC, Yuri Pankov wrote: >>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 >> > Hi folks, > It's maybe also worth mentioning that compression by default makes > ZFS faster. > Allan Jude had some numbers for the default (lz4) in the > presentation he did while implementing zstd[1]. > It can be a bit surprising though, but hopefully it's a good one.;) > Yours, > Daniel Ebdrup Jensen > 1: https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/jude-zfs_zstd/ -- Best regards, Anthony