[rm-users] Re: Looking for other large volume users

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:46:12AM -0500, Ray Ontko wrote:
> Here's a thought:  Does anyone know if it is possible to configure
> reportmart to use gzip when storing the html files, and then configure
> the web server (apache?) to zcat the files when they're served?
> 
> In other words, is it possible to use standard compression utilities
> to reduce the space requirements of ReportMart?

It seems like a good idea, but I don't believe it's currently available.

The "web server" that would need to be modified to do this is actually
the ReportMart Repository Service (which may be running on a different
machine from WebSQRIBE itself).  The Repository Service is resposible
for storing files on a disk and serving them back to other processes
upon request.

Java has built-in support for ZIP-style compression (which is the format
that .JAR files use).  It should be fairly easy for the Repository
Service to compress the disk files in the repository and decompress them
on the fly when the file is send back to another process (probably based
on a configuation setting or something).


						Nathan
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