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From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Add new option '--compact-os'
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 17:09:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b624b1b8-aca8-6190-5cc7-59cddfeb25ee@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1ibzt3g.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

Achim Gratz wrote:
> ...
> Deciding the compression and compression type by the extension is prone
> to miss a lot of real-world things, though, so you'd hope that that was
> recognized by the compact OS code itself instead of working around it?

Yes. The compression only succeeds if the number of clusters could be 
reduced. Otherwise it fails with ERROR_COMPRESSION_NOT_BENEFICIAL and 
leaves the file as is.

Regards,
Christian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-13 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-08 20:03 Christian Franke
2021-05-12 15:14 ` Jon Turney
2021-05-12 17:50   ` Christian Franke
2021-05-12 18:35     ` ASSI
2021-05-12 18:48       ` Achim Gratz
2021-05-13 15:09         ` Christian Franke [this message]
2021-05-13 14:55     ` Jon Turney
2021-05-14  7:27       ` Christian Franke
2021-05-14  7:55         ` Christian Franke
2021-07-18 13:44           ` Jon Turney
2021-05-12 18:04   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-05-13 14:42     ` Christian Franke
2021-05-13 14:45       ` Christian Franke
2021-05-17 10:17       ` Corinna Vinschen

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