Re: Compressed Disks

> The statements "Compressed data can be read quicker than 
uncompressed
> data.  I/O contention can be less." is not our usual experience, but
> yours may reflect some design differences.

I (and others) have found a noticable performance improvement with 
compressed DASD - I guess with current CPU performance, it's faster 
to decompress on the fly than read more data from disk. 

Mike



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