Re: Transparent compression in the FS

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 13:44:41 EST


On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:28:59PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:

> Surely it's just common sense to say that you have to verify the whole
> block - any algorithm that can compress N values into <N values is
> lossy by definition. A mathematical proof for that is easy.

N values is easy. N random uncorrelated values is hard.

Pedantic, me?
Never.
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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