On 17 Jun 2015 at 14:43:27, Paul Sture ([email protected]) wrote: In an office environment where the majority of files are docx, xlsx, pptx or their equivalents in non-MS Office products, they are already compressed, so there's little point in applying compression at the file level. This is easily demonstrated via "unzip -l" on one of those files.
File fragmentation is also an issue (I'm thinking of Windows here). If the guest system is unaware that its files are on a host system, there may well be a substantial CPU overhead dealing with what it thinks are fragmented files because; it's not just a matter of disk head movement, the guest OS has to handle the mapping to all those file fragments. Do you mean that Windows might do automatic reordering on the fly if it thinks files are too fragmented? -Perttu ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
