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SubjectRe: Transparent compression in the FS
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Josh Litherland <josh@temp123.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:04, Erik Mouw wrote:
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>> 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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