From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 02:24:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again)
Message-ID: <20060508022432.GA26076@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605071853290.3718@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:04:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Is that without compression?

Yes, without compression.  So yes, that probably explains the
difference between your numbers and mine. 

That brings up an interesting question though --- why not skip
compressing files that are under 4k (or whatever the filesystem
blocksize happens to be) if they are unpacked?  It burns CPU time;
maybe not enough to be human-noticeable, but it's still not buying you
anything.

						- Ted