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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 05:56:07
Message-Id: 21361.46060.149326.708483@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression by Andrew Savchenko
1 >>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2014, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2
3 > Please consider that by default du shows block size, not byte size.
4 > Than means that if file is actually 1234 bytes large, without -b it
5 > will be still accounted for 4096 bytes on 4K-block filesystem.
6
7 This raises another question, namely if files with <= 4096 bytes size
8 should be compressed at all? Portage already has a fixed size limit of
9 128 bytes (see bug 169260), but maybe this could be made configurable.
10
11 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@×××××.com>