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Message-ID: <4B74DD53.3080308@cox.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:47:15 -0600
From:	Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@....net>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext5

On 2010-02-11 15:41, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> tytso@....edu writes:
>> The idea with read-only compressed files is that they are useful for
>> large executables or large static files, where compressing them means
>> that it takes less time to read them off of an HDD.
> 
> Or when you only have so much flash.

Isn't that what squashfs is for?

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