Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:27:57 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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> > 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?
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