[Gllug] Reiserfs faster boot

[Dave Cridland [Media UK]]

> > 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>


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