On Feb 23, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

How much space does this save and is that enough to
bother with?

Read the patch, that info is in there.

+  By William Harrington - With a Sun Ultra 60 system using ext4, the
original
+  size for a default clfs dev install was 49048KB before compression.
xz -e
+  compressed them to 25840KB.

I don't know your experience with lzma2, but it has incredible compression.

Sincerely,

William Harrington
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