Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Patrick Mauritz]

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On Saturday 27 September 2003 22:45, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>       I'm kind of reading this thread as having certain optimizations of
> arch rely on filesystem improvements in the Linux kernel.  Does this
> assume that the majority of arch users will be running Linux, or just
> those who will have these optimizations available?
there are ways to reduce the overhead of really small files. on linux, 
reiserfs (and I think XFS) do this, while ext2/ext3 definitely don't (without 
patches).

as the .arch-ids files _are_ really small, they represent quite an overhead, 
thus the idea to "fix" arch (instead of the filesystem)


patrick mauritz
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