Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: undelete? | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:56:57 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I've though about this a couple of times, and I think it's not that > hard. You just divide each file into chunks of (say) 4Kb. You then > compress that 4Kb block. If it becomes 1Kb, great, you put it in the > first block of 4, and the other 3 blocks are empty. Since empty > blocks do not take up disk space (holes), that's no problem.
The problem is that you don't get a good compression ratio if your filesize (block size in this case) is too small. And you're going to waste lots of blocks due to just a few bytes being used. That's not something you like when you're designing stuff to conserve space...
Roger.
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