[Gllug] Reiserfs faster boot

[Simon Trimmer]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dave Cridland [Media UK] wrote:
> > > The file containing zeros has been compressed by a factor of 1000.
> >
> > It's not a compression scheme, just a way of efficiently storing zero
> > bytes.
>
> <pedantic>
>
> But compression schemes are simply ways of storing information more
> efficiently.
>
> As such, sparse files are a form of compression, albeit a very specialised
> one. In fact, you could liken sparse files to RLE style encoding for 0
> octets only.
>
> </pedantic>

Lets not get into a pedantics argument like black isn't a colour, it's
absence of colour. In this case "performance efficient" and "size efficient"
are both logically correct.

Holes are a fundamental feature of any filesystem developed in the last ten+
years, most people don't need to know they exist and it's really only the a
handful of people who care how they work :)

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>



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