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Re:Pack: A New Container Format for Compressed Files by iscoelho on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:53PM (#39795254)
My comment is not making any claims about that. It's just a correction that filesystems with "81k 1KB files" are indeed common.
Re:Pack: A New Container Format for Compressed Files by darby_eight on Saturday March 23, 2024 @02:08PM (#39801904)
If that were true, surely it would make sense to demonstrate this directly rather than with a contrived benchmark? The issue is not the preponderance of small files but rather the distribution of data shapes.