diff --git a/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml index c312e86210..a4fd5acb38 100644 --- a/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ + DwarFS is a read-only file system with a focus on achieving very high compression ratios in particular for very redundant data. This probably doesn't sound very exciting, because if it's redundant, it should compress well. However, I found that other read-only, compressed file systems don't do a very good job at making use of this redundancy. See here for a comparison with other compressed file systems.