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chasil
on April 3, 2022
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Quietly migrating the storage to something capable of transparent zstd would regain a lot of physical space.
BtrFS can do it, and I bet that zfs can too.
duskwuff
on April 3, 2022
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Most of the files stored on a WordPress site are going to be practically incompressible -- images, video, etc. Applying filesystem compression won't accomplish much except making the files more expensive to serve.
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BtrFS can do it, and I bet that zfs can too.