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

[Sunil Mushran]

The issue is not the type of files, rather the mode the files are r/w.
OCFS (Release 1) is supported only for o_direct operations.
gzip, etc. do bufferred reads and hence is an issue.

Kenichiro Ochi wrote:

>Hi, Experts.
>I'm Kenichiro Ochi, the support engineer of Oracle Japan.
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>I would like to ask you the following questions about supported files on OCFS.
>I know OCFS VER 1.X only supports Oracle datafiles (including archive logfiles).
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>My customer has one question.
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> - Is it supported that archive logfiles on OCFS are compressed 
>   (using compress, gzip command etc) ?
>   In other words, is it allowed that there are compressed files(.Z, .zip etc) on OCFS ?
>
>I would appreciate it if I could receive feedback on it 
>at your earliest convenience.
>
>Since I'm not in the mailing list, please reply directly back to me.
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Thanks
>Kenichiro
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