[PENNMUSH] Converting a Win32 Database over to Unix

[Chris Tankersley]

Yup, I was talking about file compression. Everything seems to be
working just how I want it. Thanks!

Chris


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:38:46 -0800 (PST), K Moon <kahmy at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chris Tankersley wrote:
> 
> > It looks like the problem I had was I chose the wrong compression type
> > when I compiled under Fedora. Did the no compression option, copied
> > the DB over, ran dos2unix on the DBs and it loaded just fine.  Now
> > that the DB is running, is there any way to turn compression on?
> >
> > Chris
> 
> Yay.  Moving on... if you're talking about in memory compression, that's
> all handled on DB startup/shutdown, and is never written out to disk
> (except maybe via the chunk allocator?).  The main issue you need to be
> aware of in this case is whether or not you have 8-bit characters in your
> DB, and whether or not your compression type is 8-bit clean.  AFAIK,
> that's the only kind of compression which is a compile time option, and I
> don't even know if you have as many choices in 1.8.
> 
> Now, if you're talking about file compression (which would make more
> sense), you can just shut down your server, change the settings in the
> mush.cnf, and then (re)compress your databases with the appropriate
> commands before restarting.  For example, if you're using gzip, you can do
> something like gzip indb to get indb.gz.  If you have indb.Z, you'd do
> uncompress indb.Z first to get indb, then gzip indb to get indb.gz.  Etc.
>