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		axitanull 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite concurrency and why you should care about i... Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how is simply zipping the original file would "defrag" the file? Shouldn't the file be moved into different disk fragment first, for that to happen?

DANmode 71 days ago [–]

That's "the file operation" :]

Again: zip is a backup

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