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		chrisseaton on May 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me of... Isn't the point of compression to save transfer time from the disk to memory, not space on the disk? That's why the kernel is compressed.

lonelappde on May 2, 2020 [–]

Yes. It's a great idea for spinning rust, meh for SATA SSD, and bad for NVMe SSD.

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