Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Robert Love]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 14:56, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> No! Not true. 'lossy' means that you can't recover the original
> data. Some music compression and video compression schemes are
> lossy. If you can get back the exact input data, it's not lossy.

...and with an N-bit hash of M bits of data, where N<M, you cannot
recover the original data...

	Robert Love


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