Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down

Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:28PM (#12847360)

These files are not often written to, and almost never randomly written to, so it's a bit of a premature optimization. Same with the text log files that I have compressed. And it negates part of the speed benefit of having less data to read.

Causing fragmentation to avoid fragmentation is a bit silly, especially when it means that none of the space saved is contiguous, leading to other files fragmenting too.

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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by binarycrusader on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:38PM (#12851641)

Compression not only provides less data to read but also to write. It still really does matter, depending on workload of course.

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