From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:50:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l0ir8jy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k19fk79g.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:48:11 +0200")
Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But it appears most of my /gnu/store content is not using compression at
>> all, perhaps because Btrfs will not compress files it knows wouldn't
>> compress well (e.g. already compressed archives).
>
> Hmmm... If you've got a lot of source archives in your store, this is
> would be true, but libraries and binaries compress very well in general,
> so I would also expect more than 10%. Have you tried cleaning up some
> of the compressed archives?
I haven't, but running compsize on my /home gives a similar
result... Weird. I don't keep much already compressed (videos, photos,
compressed archives, etc.) files in my home, AFAICT.
It'd be useful if 'compsize' could tell us the nature of the files that
we not compressed.
Maxim
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[not found] ` <20190905095603.AC57A209A5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-09-05 12:31 ` 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-05 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-08 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-09 8:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-10 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-11 20:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-12 9:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-16 15:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-16 17:46 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-27 14:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-28 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-29 7:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-29 13:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-29 13:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 7:53 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-02 13:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 15:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-02 15:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 15:59 ` btrfs and Guix features [was: gnu: next: Compress the executable.] Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-02 16:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 17:48 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-02 18:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-08 4:41 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-08 7:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-09 1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-03 7:09 ` 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable Efraim Flashner
2019-10-03 18:28 ` Bengt Richter
2019-10-04 8:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-08 7:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-08 7:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-09 1:50 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2019-10-09 8:05 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-27 15:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-27 15:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-03 5:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-03 9:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-11 2:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-26 8:38 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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