Oracle LONG RAW's and Tar's

From: James Hanway <hanwayj_at_m1a2r3.dfo-mpo.gc.cax>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:13:22 GMT
Message-ID: <3ADC4F81.DF7E7F2A@m1a2r3.dfo-mpo.gc.cax>

I apologize for cross posting this, but the issue hits both subjects.

I'm have an Oracle 7.3.4 database on a Digital 4000 server running Digital Unix 4.0D. The database takes GIS files from a user's working directory, .tar.Z's them up and then loads/unloads them into an Oracle LONG RAW field via PL/SQL calls. On occasion during an extract, the tar command (/usr/ucb/tar) will come back and prompt "Ready for Volume 2, type go when ready" . These tar files do not span any volumes or drives - they sit as a single file on a single partition (RAID 5)..

Has anyone seen such behavior from the tar command?

Cheers,

James Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 09:13:22 CDT