On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:39 AM,  <Paul.Koning@dell.com> wrote:
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>> Limited savings is due to disk sector size; as an example, the "America/New_York" produced by an unmodified zic weighs in at 3545 bytes; on a 4096-byte-sector system, the one sector it takes can't be reduced.
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> That's a point.  Note though that removing old information will also make for a bunch of duplicates, which reduces the total storage needed.  Also, if you can use a storage system that packs the data, the sector issue may not be there.  I could imagine, for example, storing the zone data in a zip file and extracting the desired file when the user says "I want to use zone America/Thule".  In our own case, I used a dense file system similar to Linux's "romfs".
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Yep, or we can mount an archive as is, with archivemount or something.
The file slack can be dealt with, as long as the data is slimmed.

Thanks!