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SubjectRe: Transparent compression in the FS
> > The upshot of all that would be that if you needed space, it would be
> > there, (just overwrite the uncompressed versions of files), but until
> > you do, you can access the uncompressed data quickly.
> >
> > You could even take it one step further, and compress files with gzip
> > by default, and re-compress them with bzip2 after long periods of
> > inactivity.
>
> Note that a file compressed with bzip2 is not necessarily smaller than
> the same file compressed with gzip. (It can be quite a bit larger in fact.)

Have you noticed that with real-life data, or only test cases?

John.
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