On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:57:51AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Policy says compress it "unless it is small". 4k is an arbitrary > choice AFAIK.
Not quite so. It is based on the common block size of the file system. If you have a block size of 4 kb, all files between 1 and 4096 bytes will occupy the same space: one block. So compressing them doesn't make any sense. (But then, you are right, as the block size can be chosen at file system creation time.) Marcus
