[Ocfs-users] Re: About compression of files on OCFS

[Bryce]

Bryce wrote:

> umm provisionally,.. yes
>
> you could do something like
>  dd --o_direct=65536,0 if=big_file of=/dev/stdout | gzip -cd - | dd 
> --o_direct=0, 65536 of= compressed_file
> (havn't a box to hand that I can quickly verify that with though)
>
oh if only I had a brain,.. that should be just "gzip -c". The -d would 
try and decompress the stream.

Phil
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