The test images for FAT8 floppies are ~250KiB each. Other file systems will have much larger images. To avoid having users download a gigabyte of test data, we should compress these. Some quick experimentation shows that run-length encoding the image<sup>*</sup> and then gzipping the result gives great results, so we're implementing that here. For reference, by "great results" I mean that an empty FAT8 floppy image can be compressed to 68 bytes. We'll see how it works with others. <sub>*RLE8, as used by Microsoft's BMP image format.</sub>
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