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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> 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