# Turn off compression in 2.0?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-off-compression-in-2-0/29290>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-off-compression-in-2-0/29290 "2015-09-15T02:52:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Janet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Janet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Janet)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-off-compression-in-2-0/29290/1 "2015-09-15T02:52:05Z")

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Is there a way to totally turn off compression in 2.0? My ZFS file system already does gzip compression, it doesn't make sense to do it twice.

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**Author:** ![rmuir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rmuir/32/44949_2.png) [@rmuir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmuir)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-off-compression-in-2-0/29290/2 "2015-09-15T15:35:06Z")

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your zfs filesystem compression is garbage, its a totally different thing than inverted index compression: i would turn off the zfs stuff.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-off-compression-in-2-0/29290/3 "2017-07-05T23:50:16Z")

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