Ocfs users - Jul 2005 - About compression of files on OCFS

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@oracle.com>

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
>
>
>  
>