Re: Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again)

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: May 8, 2006, 02:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20060508022432.GA26076@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605071853290.3718@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:04:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Is that without compression?

Yes, without compression. So yes, that probably explains the difference between your numbers and mine.

That brings up an interesting question though --- why not skip compressing files that are under 4k (or whatever the filesystem blocksize happens to be) if they are unpacked? It burns CPU time; maybe not enough to be human-noticeable, but it's still not buying you anything.

						- Ted

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