Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'

   From: duchier@ps.uni-sb.de

Thank you for your experiment. I'm not surprised by the result but it is very nice to know that my expectations are right.

I think that to a large extent you are seeing artifacts of the questionable trade-offs that (reports tell me) the ext* filesystems make. With a different filesystem, the results would be very different.

I'm imagining a blob database containing may revisions of the linux kernel. It will contain millions of blobs.

It's fine that some filesystems and some blob operations work fine on a directory with millions of files but what about other operations on the database? I pity the poor program that has to `readdir' through millions of files.

That said: I may add an optional flat-directory format to my library, just to avoid issues such as those you raise over the next couple years.

-t