Integration into file formats.
Integration into file formats.
Posted Jan 15, 2026 14:51 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762)In reply to: Integration into file formats. by Wol
Parent article: Format-specific compression with OpenZL
This is the kind of thing that sounds seductively attractive and then you actually try to do it and the metadata needed to keep track of everything blows up exponentially (literally, not in the modern meaning of "a lot"). And fragmentation increases massively, which turns out to matter even on NVMe drives.
There's specialist cases where this makes sense, but it's no free meal. Or maybe it is a free meal, in the sense that the drinks now cost 50% more.
