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Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system by mhx77 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:33PM (#25247833)
> @OP: Can you please explain why you keep 50 gigs of perl around? :-)

Sure. I've been the maintainer of a perl portability module (Devel::PPPort) for a long time and every release was tested against basically every possible version (and several build flag permutations) of perl that was potentially out in the wild.

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Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system by bufferoverflow on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:09PM (#25249379)
The single case in the known universe.
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Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system by TimTheTinker on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:23AM (#25251206)
Very impressive, to say the least.

(Not meant sarcastically :-)

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