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Re: Golden Triangle Times Two

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From: Tim Steele
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:14
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There would seem to be a theoretical difficulty with disk driver level
compression.

Chris Brown says that the software reports disks as being twice as
big, presumably on the grounds that the compression routines in the
driver average a 50% saving.

Now here's the catch: that's an AVERAGE.  Anyone who has played with
compression programs (or knows about information theory) will know
that some files actually get BIGGER when they are compressed.  It all
depends on the amount of redundancy in the information. 

So what happens if you start filling your disk up with files that
Times Two can't compress?  Does it readjust its estimate of how big
the disk is, or does it fall over in a heap?

Tim
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From: tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele)
Subject: Re: Golden Triangle Times Two
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:14:23 GMT
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