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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tar as filesystem
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Jochen Schaeuble |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tar as filesystem |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:44:09 +0100 |
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As a side effect this could also be used to solve the long-path problem
on windows (just an idea).
Greets,
Jochen
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:58:59PM -0500, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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
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