On Friday December 18 2015 10:53:35 Chusslove Illich wrote: >I'm not talking about offices requiring it. I'm talking about coming to a >random office in the world and finding my language already available, >without trifling anyone about it.
Out of curiosity: do you expect to use your language when communicating with people instead of computers, in any random office in the world? ;) >> You haven't read (or understood) my argument, which is about how blocks >> are used, not how many. > >I read it, but apparently I didn't understand it. Would you explain it >further, or point me to an explanation? In traditional disk/file system technology, files use an integer number of blocks, and blocks aren't shared among files. I am not aware that has changed with SSDs, but block sizes have increased. They used to be 512 bytes, which is a size that is small enough that the actual on-disk size for each file will never be more than 511 bytes larger than necessary. With 4096 byte blocks that potential waste grows to 4095 bytes, about 8x more. Disclaimer: this is what *I* understand of the underlying functioning. I am not always right in my understanding of things. As I said, I don't want to make a huge point of this. I'm perfectly aware that we're not in a situation like the last time I cleaned unwanted languages (.lproj directories) from OS X and freed up hundreds of Mbs from my boot partition. And in that case we were talking about absolute disk space waste :) R _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
