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Re: Changelog files



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.


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