118: Several Thousand Minor Details
I’m not back at work full-time, but I am starting back and paging the OpenZFS Mastery manuscript back into my skull’s RAM. Here’s a tidbit.
Compression is a key feature of OpenZFS. A computer has four classic bottlenecks: CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network. CPU cycles are the most plentiful in modern computers, while disk I/O and memory are much more constrained. Footnote This paragraph is being written on a machine with a 96-core CPU, and all but two of them are bored stupid. By compressing data before breaking it up into blocks, OpenZFS can store more data on each block. Similarly…
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