zfs discuss - Sep 2008 - ZFS in Solaris 10 5/08

All,

I realize this is an "Open Solaris" forum but I need help. 
I''m getting conflicting information that ZFS in Solaris 5/08 release
does support gzip compression.  However when I run a zpool upgrade -v command it
reports version 4 and this doesn''t gzip... yes??

Is there a way to get gzip compression (gzip-9) enabled in zfs on Solaris 10
5/08??

Thanks in advance for the discussion.

---Kenny
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Kenny wrote:
> All,
>
> I realize this is an "Open Solaris" forum but I need help. 
I''m getting conflicting information that ZFS in Solaris 5/08 release
does support gzip compression.  However when I run a zpool upgrade -v command it
reports version 4 and this doesn''t gzip... yes??
>   
correct.  gzip arrives with zpool version 5.
> Is there a way to get gzip compression (gzip-9) enabled in zfs on Solaris
10 5/08??
>   
Not today, AFAIK.  This will appear as a patch for Solaris 10 5/08
(aka Solaris 10 update 5) and should be in Solaris 10 update 6.  But
I do not know the schedule beyond "later this year" or "real soon
now."
 -- richard