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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 19:41:45 JST kaia
   why don't filesystems natively compress files?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 19:42:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @kaia ZFS has been doing so since 2005?
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     kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 19:43:47 JST kimapr

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     @kaia btrfs can

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 19:47:50 JST lainy

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     @kaia historical reasons. it used to be that compute was too slow for real time compression and decompression. These days enabling compression on filesystems generally makes them faster. You can do it on some filesystems like zfs, though (also postgres will also automatically compress the data because it's faster to load from the hd and decompress in ram than to load the uncompressed data from ram)
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     smeikx (smeikx@graz.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 21:14:36 JST smeikx

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     @kaia I think more modern filesystems do. ZFS, BTRFS and APFS all can do it (probably others too).

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 21:46:52 JST Oblomov

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     @kaia there are filesystems that do

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