[SOLVED] Backup compression zstd

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Is it a good idea to enable compression zstd for both, backup and disk (zfs) ?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

It should not hurt in general - ZFS checks if a block is compressible - and stores it uncompressed if there is no (or very little gain).
Additionally Compression is quite cheap with a modern CPU

(However if data is compressed already compressing it again will not help to make it smaller - just to be clear)

I hope this helps!

 

[0bit]

Thanks for reply