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author | delphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-16 23:11:13 +0000 |
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committer | delphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-16 23:11:13 +0000 |
commit | b94c2686e785319885fa755b1a70edb9b242d25d (patch) | |
tree | e88515342b1023ba24fefec0230c07d9f4c49b29 | |
parent | 35399d7c3aee780352cd56712944f547c723f287 (diff) | |
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Update vendor/illumos/dist and vendor-sys/illumos/dist
to illumos-gate 13921:9d721847e469
(illumos zfs issue #3035 LZ4 compression support in ZFS and GRUB)
-rw-r--r-- | man/man1m/zfs.1m | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man/man5/zpool-features.5 | 34 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1m/zfs.1m b/man/man1m/zfs.1m index 87e2a57..fc3e899 100644 --- a/man/man1m/zfs.1m +++ b/man/man1m/zfs.1m @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 2012 by Delphix. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 2012, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright 2012 Nexenta Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 by Saso Kiselkov. All rights reserved. .\" .TH ZFS 1M "Sep 16, 2012" .SH NAME @@ -912,7 +913,7 @@ Changing this property affects only newly-written data. .ne 2 .na \fB\fBcompression\fR=\fBon\fR | \fBoff\fR | \fBlzjb\fR | \fBgzip\fR | -\fBgzip-\fR\fIN\fR | \fBzle\fR\fR +\fBgzip-\fR\fIN\fR | \fBzle\fR\fR | \fBlz4\fR .ad .sp .6 .RS 4n @@ -926,6 +927,14 @@ value \fBgzip-\fR\fIN\fR where \fIN\fR is an integer from 1 (fastest) to 9 (which is also the default for \fBgzip\fR(1)). The \fBzle\fR compression algorithm compresses runs of zeros. .sp +The \fBlz4\fR compression algorithm is a high-performance replacement +for the \fBlzjb\fR algorithm. It features significantly faster +compression and decompression, as well as a moderately higher +compression ratio than \fBlzjb\fR, but can only be used on pools with +the \fBlz4_compress\fR feature set to \fIenabled\fR. See +\fBzpool-features\fR(5) for details on ZFS feature flags and the +\fBlz4_compress\fR feature. +.sp This property can also be referred to by its shortened column name \fBcompress\fR. Changing this property affects only newly-written data. .RE diff --git a/man/man5/zpool-features.5 b/man/man5/zpool-features.5 index 0ab179e..a306e43 100644 --- a/man/man5/zpool-features.5 +++ b/man/man5/zpool-features.5 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ '\" te .\" Copyright (c) 2012 by Delphix. All rights reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 by Saso Kiselkov. All rights reserved. .\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development .\" and Distribution License (the "License"). You may not use this file except .\" in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy of the license at @@ -197,5 +198,38 @@ This feature is \fBactive\fR while there are any filesystems, volumes, or snapshots which were created after enabling this feature. .RE +.sp +.ne 2 +.na +\fB\fBlz4_compress\fR\fR +.ad +.RS 4n +.TS +l l . +GUID org.illumos:lz4_compress +READ\-ONLY COMPATIBLE no +DEPENDENCIES none +.TE + +\fBlz4\fR is a high-performance real-time compression algorithm that +features significantly faster compression and decompression as well as a +higher compression ratio than the older \fBlzjb\fR compression. +Typically, \fBlz4\fR compression is approximately 50% faster on +compressible data and 200% faster on incompressible data than +\fBlzjb\fR. It is also approximately 80% faster on decompression, while +giving approximately 10% better compression ratio. + +When the \fBlz4_compress\fR feature is set to \fBenabled\fR, the +administrator can turn on \fBlz4\fR compression on any dataset on the +pool using the \fBzfs\fR(1M) command. Please note that doing so will +immediately activate the \fBlz4_compress\fR feature on the underlying +pool (even before any data is written). Since this feature is not +read-only compatible, this operation will render the pool unimportable +on systems without support for the \fBlz4_compress\fR feature. At the +moment, this operation cannot be reversed. Booting off of +\fBlz4\fR-compressed root pools is supported. + +.RE + .SH "SEE ALSO" \fBzpool\fR(1M) |