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Re: Compression through e2compr

On 30 Jan 1997, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

quinlan >However, since disk is so cheap (relative to other PC hardware
quinlan >components), I would only have it as an option.  (I would never
quinlan >personally use it and I suspect some other people may feel the same
quinlan >way.)

I feel the same way that compression should be optional. But there is
appearantly a high demand for compression given the replies I have gotten
so far when raising the issue. Having it on the kernel level allows
compression any part of the filesystem if so desired without any problems
for the maintenance of the package.  We would not need webservers having
decompression on the fly. Manpage related software would run easier. No
messing around with that buggy "zless" anymore.

I really wish we would get rid of compression requirements. We still have
no sane way of compressing .html files and preserving link integrity.
Could we agree on making compression recommended for now? If that kernel
level compression really works out then we can gradually back off from
compressing files with gzip (debmake users will just have to rebuild to
get a package without compression some day).

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