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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] prepman: do not compress files <=128 bytes
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:09:28
Message-Id: m3wqt1ezrl.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] prepman: do not compress files <=128 bytes by Mike Frysinger
1 >>>>> "MF" == Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> writes:
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3 MF> +SIZE_LIMIT='128'
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5 The limit probably should be larger, given that nothing which fits into
6 one filesystem block will use less space compressed.
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8 In many cases a limit of 4096 would be appropriate. But a limit of 1024
9 should cover the lowest common denominator.
10
11 -JimC
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13 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

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