Why is it nice to have that behavior as an option in addition to/instead of just trying to compress everything as it's written? aside: gotta love that the comm

Why is it nice to have that behavior as an option in addition to/instead of just trying to compress everything as it's written? aside: gotta love that the commenter who said they wished for this feature got downvoted before a respected filesystem developer casually dropped by to mention that it was a feature he thought was worth implementing in his cool new filesystem.