From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (gate001.proxmox.com [45.144.208.40]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A10201FF0E5 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:37:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate001.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 31B3F20A75; Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:37:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Maximiliano Sandoval To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH docs] zfs: mention that zfs are compressed by default Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:37:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20260729143704.566693-1-m.sandoval@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Bm-Milter-Handled: 55990f41-d878-4baa-be0a-ee34c49e34d2 X-Bm-Transport-Timestamp: 1785335817112 X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL 0.215 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment (newer systems) RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW -0.7 Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/, low trust SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Message-ID-Hash: OL5E2WWUV2YQVDWLFW4J5CZAO7XOQQEJ X-Message-ID-Hash: OL5E2WWUV2YQVDWLFW4J5CZAO7XOQQEJ X-MailFrom: m.sandoval@proxmox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: The installer and web UI have compression checked on by default when creating a pool, at the very least, since Proxmox VE 8.0. Suggested-by: Mario Loderer Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval --- local-zfs.adoc | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/local-zfs.adoc b/local-zfs.adoc index cdc17a4..17fef12 100644 --- a/local-zfs.adoc +++ b/local-zfs.adoc @@ -783,7 +783,8 @@ When compression is enabled on a dataset, ZFS tries to compress all *new* blocks before writing them and decompresses them on reading. Already existing data will not be compressed retroactively. -You can enable compression with: +When creating a pool on Proxmox VE using the Web UI or the ISO installer, +compression is enabled by default. You can enable compression with: ---- # zfs set compression= -- 2.47.3