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. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
