Re: [opensuse] Re: compress? uncompress? Why are they gone? - With a twist towards the future ?

On Sunday 12 August 2007, G T Smith wrote:
It was a great technology, but a bit problematic on a high demand setup.
You tend to have very few compressed files but the overheads of the
compression process being active.

It was also dangerous. I had one client that ran out of disk on Netware
and it became a nightmare to salvage data from the machine because
there was not enough room to decompress the very large files his business
tended to create.

Simply copying off files to another server became a one-by-one operation,
as the copy operation would cause decompression, and would exhaust all
available space if done en-mass. We would copy one file to the new server
and then had to delete the source file, and copy another. Rinse, repeat.

After about two hours of this, we finally got to where we could copy
entire small directories. Erase, erase, Copy another directory, etc.

Its a trap for the unwary.

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