Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Bengt Richter <address@hidden> writes:

> I.e., isn't e.g. ext4 smart enough to defer actual allocation of physical 
> page blocks
> when blocks are pure zero, and just store the fact of their existence in inode
> metadata?

Yes, ext4 supports that.

> Is there a version of df that has an option to output both sizes of
> a sparsely non-zero file?

I don't think df can do that, bu GNU `du' can, see the --apparent-size /
--bytes options.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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