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When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

RichardBarrell

> Java file? Ohh, that's big. I'll gzip it

Please tell me they didn't gzip a .jar file? Those are already zip files, compressed with deflate!

(You may get a little more compression out of them because zip compresses files one at a time, but rarely an interesting amount.)

> Log file? Ohh, that's big. I'll gzip it. Log rotation breaks.

Log rotation should already have been gzipping yesterday's rotated copy. ;)

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