Does it make sense to compress log files nowadays? BTRFS and ZFS have compression built in, that compression probably won't be as good as gzip on a large file because the filesystems will use smaller block sizes. But it will still provide some benefit. On modern systems writes are more of an issue. Rewriting every log file every night contributes to the wear of SSDs for no real benefit (any system which has log files any fraction of the size of a 60G minimal SSD will probably use ZFS or BTRFS on some big disks for main storage). It seems to me that the default log compression has more problems than benefits with today's technology. It made a lot of sense when 1G was a big hard drive, but nowadays a 60G SSD is about as small as you can buy. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/