shredding files on a flash drive

[Anthony de Boer]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>  ... It's a
> compromise.  You also need quite a bit of CPU power to compress files
> fast enough to actually write faster than you could without compression.

Often the compromise is predicated more on wanting/needing to fit more
data than will fit uncompressed on the media.  The tradeoff of more CPU
time to less physical I/O is less of an obvious win and less likely to
drive a decision for filesystem compression.

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Anthony de Boer
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