Comment by dotancohen

  > In 2022, we shouldn't be reserving any area of a file as 'spare space' like this.

In 2022, we should have file formats that are not naive of the underlying filesystem. I store my text notes in Git, but I also have two LibreOffice documents in there because org-mode doesn't handle their contents well. It would be nice of only 5% of the file had to be rewritten when I change a single word, rather than the current 91% of the file. A 5% hit to storage for a 91% reduction each time I update it would be a great trade off.