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

[Kenichiro Ochi]

Sunil 

Thank you for your prompt reply.
I really appreciate it.

Please let me know if you know.
Do you know the documentation which shows as follwing.
 - It is not supported that archive logfiles on OCFS are compressed.

Thank you in advance.

Thanks.
Kenichiro


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:05:16 -0700
Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >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).
> >
> >My customer has one question.
> >
> > - 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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Kenichiro Ochi <Kenichiro.Ochi at oracle.com>