Re: Size limit for compressing files
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:57:51AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Policy says compress it "unless it is small". 4k is an arbitrary
> choice AFAIK.
Not quite so. It is based on the common block size of the file system.
If you have a block size of 4 kb, all files between 1 and 4096 bytes will
occupy the same space: one block. So compressing them doesn't make any
sense.
(But then, you are right, as the block size can be chosen at file system
creation time.)
Marcus
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