* [PATCH docs] zfs: mention that zfs are compressed by default
@ 2026-07-29 14:37 Maximiliano Sandoval
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From: Maximiliano Sandoval @ 2026-07-29 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pve-devel
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 <m.loderer@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
---
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=<algorithm> <dataset>
--
2.47.3
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