On Wed, June 17, 2009 06:15, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

>>> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but why bother enabling
>>> compression if the majority (by volume) of user data won't do
>>> anything but burn CPU?
>
> How do you define "substantial"? My opensolaris snv_111b installation
> has 1.47x compression ratio for "/", with the default compression.
> It's well worthed for me.

And how many GB is that? ~1.5x is quite good, but if you're talking about
a 7.5 GB install using "only" 3 GB of space, but your homedir is 50 GB,
it's not a lot in relative terms.


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