From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-06-26T06:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: SPDX (and the glazing of ones eyes)

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:51:55AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
>=20
> Point being: Unless you are stuck on tiny HDs (smaller than your
> average SSD these days), disk space is a non-issue. Your average "one
> file per class" approach wastes much more diskspace than this would (on
> NTFS, the smallest block size is 4KB, which means anything that's
> smaller than 4KB is lost. This is worse on *NIX filesystems with
> inodes).

On the other hand, disk space sometimes serves well as a rule of thumb
for determining human readability -- where the more space it takes up
relative to the actual data it contains, the harder it is likely to be
for a human to make sense of it in a text file.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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