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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tar as filesystem
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Miles Bader |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tar as filesystem |
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Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:58:59 -0500 |
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:40:05PM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > A while ago, Miles Bader pointed out that patch-log files tend to waste
> > space on filesystems where the minimum block size is 4 k. He suggested
> > storing old patch-logs in tar files, which lead me to thinking of using
> > tar as a filesystem format.
>
> The problem should be fixed somewhere else -- by fixing the filesystem.
As was pointed out in the thread, that is (1) not really practical in the
short term, and (2) not good enough anyway -- old patch-logs take too much
space even if your filesystem has byte-level granularity, so some sort of
compression is highly desirable.
-Miles
--
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has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia