Re: --print-stats question

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 02/03/14 21:42, John Pederzolli wrote:
> I am not sure I understand the output from --print-stats, I receive the
> following:
> 
> Total size  Compressed size All archives
> 26594559289      26669135002 (unique data)
> 26282387060      26397244896
> 
> My questions is why is compressed size _greater_ than total size for both
> 'All archives' and ' (unique data)'?

The "compressed" here really means "what actually gets stored", so it includes
a small amount of overhead per block.  You presumably have data which can't be
compressed at all, in order for this overhead to be noticeable like this.

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