From: Martin Uecker Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:12:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] multi item packed files Message-ID: <20050422181228.GA4656@macavity> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:40:29AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > This is why I absolutely do not believe in arguments like "if your > > filesystem doesn't do tail packing, you shouldn't use it" or "if your > > don't have name hashing enabled in your filesystem it's broken". > > Of course. But one may consider using a filesystem with, say, different > settings. Or a special filesystem for this task, such as CNFS used by > news servers (it seems news servers do quite the same what git does, > except they also purge old contents, i.e., container files don't grow up). and nttp would give a nice transfer method for git objects... Martin -- One night, when little Giana from Milano was fast asleep, she had a strange dream.