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Unix files have (at least) two sizes

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68 points ingve | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 10:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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gerdesj ◴[17 Apr 25 00:54 UTC] No.43711952[source]▶
Many years ago I looked after a Novell cluster of three hosts with a rather expensive FC connected array. So what - that's pretty normal?

It was the early noughties and a TB was expensive. I wrote a spreadsheet with inputs from the Novell .ocx jobbies. The files were stored on some Novell NSS volu.mes.

I was able to show all states of the files and aggregate stats too.

Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft

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1. ndsipa_pomu ◴[17 Apr 25 07:44 UTC] No.43714105[source]▶
> Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft

Enabling compression can also increase performance (decompressing is quick compared to reading from the disks) so disk size isn't the only reason to enable it.