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ZFS compresison
zfs get compression zfs get compression /rpool zfs get compressratio zfs get compressratio /rpool zfs get compression,compressratio,used,logicalused,referenced,logicalreferenced rpool/data/subvol-118-disk-0
switch to ZSTD
From OpenZFS 2.0.0 there is support for ZSTD:
zpool get all | grep compr nvmpool feature@lz4_compress active local nvmpool feature@zstd_compress disabled local rpool feature@lz4_compress active local rpool feature@zstd_compress disabled local zfs get all rpool | grep compr rpool compressratio 1.16x - rpool compression on local rpool refcompressratio 1.00x -
zfs set compression=zstd rpool/data cannot set property for 'rpool/data': pool and or dataset must be upgraded to set this property or value
OpenZFS ZSTD compression level is 3 (available range is 1-19). To change it to 9:
zfs set compression=zstd-9 rpool/data
NOTE: it significantly increase CPU usage when writing huge amount of data (RAW movies). The best results for RAW movies is off or lz4.