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UltraSane 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn'...

I'm talking about the "Compress contents to save disk space" option in the Advanced Attributes. It makes the file blue. I enable it on all .txt log files because it is so effective and completely transparent. It compresses a 25MB Google Drive log file to 8MB

Dylan16807 6 months ago [–]

That's the old kind.

It's useful, but if they updated it it could get significantly better ratios and have less impact on performance.

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