Re:HFS+ is crazy
by astrange on Friday December 04, 2015 @04:16PM
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FS compression is transparent to any regular file-reading API; it only shows up in lower-level APIs, like if you want to copy the file and keep the compression.
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Re:HFS+ is crazy
by mdellabitta on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:35PM
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I was responding to the comment "You wouldn't put the entire content of a file in an extended attribute, would you?" HFS+ does, although in this case, it does without leaking that detail to callers.