On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:04:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Is that without compression? Yes, without compression. So yes, that probably explains the difference between your numbers and mine. That brings up an interesting question though --- why not skip compressing files that are under 4k (or whatever the filesystem blocksize happens to be) if they are unpacked? It burns CPU time; maybe not enough to be human-noticeable, but it's still not buying you anything. - Ted - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html