ZFS compression doesn't work

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Aug-27 23:51:06 +0200, antonin tessier <antonintessier at live.fr> wrote:
>I am trying to understand and use ZFS features. My issue is that compression doesn't work,

zfs compression definitely does work and you haven't explained why
you think it doesn't.

> NAME               USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> home                       7.33G            180G   32K     home
> home/compressed  7.33G   180G  7.33G  /home/compressed
>
>despite I did:
># zfs set compression=gzip home/compressed

Did you run that command before or after you copied the data into
/home/compressed?

How much data did you load into /home/compressed?

How did you copy the data into /home/compressed?

What is the result of "zfs get all home/compressed"?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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