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Old 01-02-2007
compress disk on Solaris 9
Is is possible to create a compress volume on a Solaris 9 machine? If so what are my options? btw, I do not have Veritas Volume Manager
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Old 01-05-2007
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Originally Posted by gandolf989
Is is possible to create a compress volume on a Solaris 9 machine? If so what are my options? btw, I do not have Veritas Volume Manager
I really meant to say solaris 8, or even 10. Does anyone really use Solaris 9???

I'm guessing that there is no good option for this.
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Old 01-05-2007
In Solaris 10, zfs has some compression attributes that I have never experimented with. You can try to take a look at that.
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