Unix administration - compressed filesystem for HP-UX

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compressed filesystem for HP-UX

Gerry Demers

2004-12-01, 5:58 pm

Is there any support for compressed filesystems available for HP-UX?
It has existed for quite some time on AIX and is quite usefull.

Dave Hinz

2004-12-01, 5:58 pm

On 1 Dec 2004 11:06:19 -0800, Gerry Demers <gerard.l1.demers@verizon.com> wrote:
> Is there any support for compressed filesystems available for HP-UX?
> It has existed for quite some time on AIX and is quite usefull.

I don't know, I haven't used HP-UX since 11.0 _just_ came out. But...
with disk being cheap, and with CPU not, why burn cycles to save space
on cheap disk? My servers are usually CPU-bound rather than out of
space.

What problem does a compressed filesystem provide, and at what overhead?

Dave Hinz