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2008 Dec 11
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Auto-sparseifying
Hi, I''ve noticed many files have blocks of plain nulls up to a few kb long, even files you wouldn''t normally expect to, like ELF executables. I know that with compression enabled these will compress very small, but that will have a reasonable hit on performance. How much of an overhead would it be to check all checksummed file extents to see if they match the checksum for a