Tag: lzjb

  • ZFS: How to change the compression level

    ZFS: How to change the compression level

    By default ZFS uses the lzjb compression algorithm; you can select others when setting compression on a ZFS folder. To try another one do the following:   sudo zfs set compression=gzip [zfs dataset]   This changes the compression algorithm to gzip. By default this sets it to gzip-6 compression; we can actually specify what level…