Christoph Lameter wrote: > Reasons for not compressing changelogs <4K: > > - After compression the file is still occupying 1 allocation > unit. There is no space saving. I wonder if there lies the root of the disagreement. You see, the default unit of allocation for ext2fs is 1024 bytes, not 4096. Compressing a 4000-byte file to 2000 bytes will save two blocks.