MinIO server allows streaming compression to ensure efficient disk space usage. Compression happens inflight, i.e objects are compressed before being written to disk(s). MinIO uses [`golang/snappy`](https://github.com/golang/snappy) streaming compression due to its stability and performance.
MinIO server allows streaming compression to ensure efficient disk space usage. Compression happens inflight, i.e objects are compressed before being written to disk(s). MinIO uses [`klauspost/compress/s2`](https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/s2) streaming compression due to its stability and performance.
This algorithm is specifically optimized for machine generated content. Write throughput is typically at least 300MB/s per CPU core. Decompression speed is typically at least 1GB/s.
This means that in cases where raw IO is below these numbers compression will not only reduce disk usage but also help increase system throughput.
Typically enabling compression on spinning disk systems will increase speed when the content can be compressed.
## Get Started
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Since text, log, csv, json files are highly compressible, These extensions/mime-types are included by default for compression.
Having compression enabled and no extensions or mime types will attempt to compress anything that isn't explicitly known to be already compressed content.
Settings for enabling compression on all content, except for types listed below:
```json
"compress": {
"enabled": true,
"extensions": [],
"mime-types": []
}
```
Incompressible content will be skipped with quite low CPU usage and storage overhead, typically at several GB/s.
To update the configuration, use `mc admin config get` command to get the current configuration file for the minio cluster in json format, and save it locally.
All files with these extensions and mime types are excluded from compression, even if compression is enabled for all types.
- MinIO does not support encryption with compression because compression and encryption together potentially enables room for side channel attacks like [`CRIME and BREACH`](https://blog.minio.io/c-e-compression-encryption-cb6b7f04a369)
- MinIO does not support compression for Gateway (Azure/GCS/NAS) implementations.