alt Hacker NewsWe can talk about even more general idea of saving file space: compression. Ever heard about it used across the whole filesystems?
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fh973 • today at 9:19 AM
Most compressible file formats are already compressed, and with compression you lose efficient non-sequential IO.
eeeficus • today at 8:03 AM
You introduce overhead on both read and write without being a better solution to OPs problem.
Microsoft MS-DOS and Windows supported this in the 90s with DriveSpace, and modern file systems like btrfs and zfs also support transparent compression.