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"Disk manufacturers hate this simple trick for free data storage."
by moffkalast 2y ago
"Disk manufacturers hate this simple trick for free data storage."
- dspillett 2y agoOh, that might make a great April 1st release: a mirror filesystem module for WinFSP that splits files into 500 byte chunks on disk. “See, we saved that 4Mbyte photo to the new filesystem, and it, using the NTFS infinite space for small files trick, made it take absolutely zero disk space! Now we'll make a sub-folder and drop a few more files in that, and look, they show as taking no space in the magic backing store but can be properly opened as normal!”. Drop it on youtube or tt, get your popular friends (this might scupper me, if anyone I know is an online influenza they have the good sense not to let me know about such proclivities!) to make a review of it, and see how far and wide it spreads with people either in on the joke or idiots just parroting it for views.
- devbent 2y agoBack in the days of dos, I use one of the disK compression utilities to store 20 MB on a regular 3.5-in floppy. The entire 20 MB consisted of metadata for the compression system!