For all of those who know Netware well, you know the disk volume is by default as being compressed and when a file is requested it is uncompressed and will remain that way unless the file is re-requested from disk within a parameter set time period. Novell have a great compression/uncompress algorithm that by default coverer's every defined volume of disk space, however, why it is perfectly safe and why it can be relied on is their TTS fault tolerant RAID 1, Cluster duplication, Hotfix, etc. etc. etc.. I would hope to see some work done along this vane with the FS of SLES, in my humble opinion if any server cannot perform a hotfix or does not have TTS then its not worth anything. Rule 0. Data integrity the the foundation of a successful PC server right up to a Z series Mainframe from IBM. Novell Netware introduced compression - turned on by default and with all its current redundancies, compression was a non issue, however in reality is gave you a lot of space for nothing, however if an organisations is still storing data files on local PC HDD - I feel very sorry for them. If someone is interested,and more to the point knows something, is there a possibility that we will ever see reliable compression of Linux Servers with suitable redundancy measures - (nothing to do with the past pathetic attempt of compressing stand alone Workstations.) AND With further expansion of the 'ex' file system are we likely to see TTS included in perhaps ex4? If someone could let me know if either of these are in the pipeline that would be nice ( you can have a make up name if you work for SUSE.DE Development. Scott Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:16:32 +0200 (CEST), Carlos E. R. wrote:
Plus, there is a "/usr/share/man/man1p/compress.1p.gz" file that belongs to "man-pages-2.41-11", but no compress binary anywhere.
compress was removed because it used a patented compression algorithm ( I'm not shure if the patent is still valid though) and gzip can uncomress archives produced by compress.
Philipp