Re: [GRASS-dev] NULL file compression by default

2016-06-08 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > according to the current documentation, the NULL files are still > uncompressed [1]. > Is there an important reason to not switch it on by default? The fact that no "release" version supports reading compressed null files. So anyone not explicitly disabling compression

[GRASS-dev] NULL file compression by default

2016-06-06 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi, according to the current documentation, the NULL files are still uncompressed [1]. Is there an important reason to not switch it on by default? The code is here: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/lib/raster/init.c#L124 I just don't want to waste terabytes because the