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From: Harri Haataja <realblades@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2008 11:58:47 +0300
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a question of file and the history of magic
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> There are a lot of things like that.  Do we still need to
> compress man pages on 1TB disk driver? :)

I actually happened to be reading this on a small device that has a compressed system fs. Compressing data here on the "app" side with uninformed algorithms is discouraged to avoid double compression and other assorted losses. I believe you hit the same things with compression on some network protocols.

Touching GB range, this isn't that tiny but well below TB. :)