shredding files on a flash drive

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

|   If you ever wanted to edit a file, then with a
| compressed filesystem you have to rewrite the whole file on a write
| rather than just the part of the file that is changing.

It depends what you mean by "edit".  Most forms of editing rewrite the
whole file.  Directories and formal databases are significant exceptions.

|  It's a
| compromise.

True.
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