Re: ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG COMPRESS ENABLE

In the case of ASM you could always provision an ACFS filesystem which also supports compression since 12.2,:). I'd be wary of using a feature that's been around since 10 and never made it to documented status when there are supported alternative options.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:26 AM Luis Santos <lsantos_at_pobox.com> wrote:

> I'm aware of on-the-fly compression filesystems since old Windows Stacker.
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> This is not an option for Oracle DBs in ASM.
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> But thanks anyway!
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> *Luis Santos*
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> Em qui, 20 de dez de 2018 às 17:01, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
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>> Ah that!
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>> That too is supported:
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>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/look-vdo-new-linux-compression-layer
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>> You can have a compressed file system and put your archive logs there.
>> NTFS too has such capability. There is no reason for Oracle to do
>> compression of the archive logs. I prefer rman to maintain cleanliness of
>> my LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1. And cleanliness is next to godliness.
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>> Regards
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>> On 12/20/18 1:16 PM, Luis Santos wrote:
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>> This relates to on-the-fly compression on redo log transport between Data
>> Guard DB nodes.
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>> Mladen Gogala
>> Database Consultant
>> Tel: (347) 321-1217
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