From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Feb 2 12:08:05 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12I84wN026988 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:08:04 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12I84em026984 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:08:04 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4EFAA6C53B; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20125-02; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id AE66A6C43C; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:08 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: Need Compress utility on Linux Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:05:28 -0600 Message-ID: <270A0BDDFDE54E41B78F0F06D82A66B8013463C4@okcexg3.kmg.com> Priority: normal X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Need Compress utility on Linux Thread-Index: AcUJSEgC1cy1sIYzQ+6p0xkYy684nAAARlRQ From: "Smith, Ron L." To: "Mladen Gogala" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Feb 2005 17:05:28.0873 (UTC) FILETIME=[656B7190:01C50949] X-archive-position: 15685 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: rlsmith@kmg.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: rlsmith@kmg.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Thanks for the info! -----Original Message----- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala@allegientsystems.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:57 AM To: Smith, Ron L. Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Need Compress utility on Linux Smith, Ron L. wrote: >We have been using the standard Oracle export piped into the Compress=20 >utility on Unix for years. Now we are moving to Linux and the Compress >will not handle files over 2G. Is there another version of Compress=20 >available for Linux or is someone using another export / import method? > >Thanks! >Ron > =20 > Ron, there is a whole slew of compression utilities on Linux. The first=20 one that you can take a look and then turn your head away in disgust, is the good, old zip. It works on=20 Windoze, it works on Linux, it works on Unix, it works on Mac. It works everywhere, but the=20 compression is not all that great. The next utility to look at is gzip. It is also extremely portable, fast and usually provides a good compression ratio. It is also incorporated in a little command called "tar" which=20 you may feel like using from time to time, once you switch to Linux. The utility that has the best compression=20 ratio is bzip2. It does beautiful job with compression, but it consumes=20 a lot of CPU power to do that. There is even a parallel version of =20 bzip2 which can peg your machine for 30 or so, for a large 6GB file, but will do a=20 beautiful job on compressing your data. In addition to that, there are the ultimate compression utilities called rm and fdisk which compress your data to nothing and do that quickly.=20 Very quickly. Your data is irreversibly moved to the higher plane of=20 existence. Those two utilities are extremely popular among pranksters. --=20 Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 Important Notice!! If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, any use, = distribution or copying of the message is prohibited. Please let me know immediately by return e-mail if you have received = this message by mistake, then delete the e-mail message. Thank you. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l