Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:47 +0100, DdB wrote:
> Am 10.11.2022 um 06:38 schrieb David Christensen:
> > What is your technique for defragmenting ZFS?
> well, that was meant more or less a joke: there is none apart from
> offloading all the data, destroying and rebuilding the pool, and filling
> it again from the backup. But i do it from time to time if fragmentation
> got high, the speed improvements are obvious. OTOH the process takes
> days on my SOHO servers
>
Does it save you days so that you save more time than you spend on defragmenting
it because access is faster?
Perhaps after so many days of not defragging, but how many days?
Maybe use an archive pool that doesn't get deleted from?
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