Because everyone has time to 7z a -m”x=9” an entire game that might be hardly compressible due to drm, whenever they want to unzip and play a different game! /s
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shisuko@mastodon.social 8 months agos12@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 8 months ago
It can, but it’s not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Already using btrfs, since I’m on Bazzite, but I think I’ll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂