Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS | From | Erik Bourget <> | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:53:35 -0400 |
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Josh Litherland <josh@temp123.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:04, Erik Mouw wrote: > >> FYI: you hardly see compressed files on NTFS. If you do, it's either >> because the user thought it was a fun feature > > -shrug- The windows disk cleanup tool does this by default now if you > let it. It compresses files that have an old access time. Not a bad > idea imo, if perhaps one of limited usefulness.
What happens when you go through and do a folder-open on that old directory of pictures that you had, which re-reads them to generate thumbnails? Do they have to be uncompressed-on-disk to be read? Will they stay compressed forever, or be decompressed automatically on access?
- Erik Bourget
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