[PATCH setup] Add new option '--compact-os'
Christian Franke
Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Thu May 13 15:09:06 GMT 2021
Achim Gratz wrote:
> ...
> Deciding the compression and compression type by the extension is prone
> to miss a lot of real-world things, though, so you'd hope that that was
> recognized by the compact OS code itself instead of working around it?
Yes. The compression only succeeds if the number of clusters could be
reduced. Otherwise it fails with ERROR_COMPRESSION_NOT_BENEFICIAL and
leaves the file as is.
Regards,
Christian
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