On 06Oct2009 08:14, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have RHEL 4 or 5 with standard installation. I need a compressed file | system temporarily to store an Oracle data pump export file. What's the | easiest solution? Oracle data pump does not support a sequential device | as its output so I can't pipe the output to gzip or compress. Does it actually do random I/O to the dump file, or does it simply require you to specify a filename with no _convenient_ pipe output syntax? If it is only an invocation issue, thus: oracle-data-pump-command filename you may be able to check and use a named pipe: mknod p foo gzip <foo >foo.gz & oracle-data-pump-command foo | Creating | the dump file on an internally compressed file system is the best I can | think of. Thanks. It is a good idea. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
