Tuesday 9 April 2013

ZFS compression

FreeBSD9 stable has a new option for ZFS transparent compression -  lz4. For most of my builds, I use lzjb, however lz4 appears to have some compelling advantages:


  • Approximately 50% faster compression when operating on compressible data.
  • Approximately 80% faster on decompression.
  • Over three times faster on compression of incompressible data.
  • Higher compression ratio (up to 10% on the larger block sizes).
  • Performance on modern CPUs often exceeds 500 MB/s on compression and over 1.5 GB/s on decompression and incompressible data (per single CPU core).



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