Re: Git as a filesystem

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2007, 12:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20070921125337.GA28456@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <fbe8b1780709210441n281248dbh5ba9934d09d6bbfc@mail.gmail.com>

On 2007-09-21 13:41:07 +0200, Peter Stahlir wrote:

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> My motivation is whether it is possible to run a system, for example
> Debian on a computer on top of gitfs, and then have a huge mirror on
> it, for example a complete 252GB Debian mirror as space efficient as
> possible.
>
> I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would
> be. :)

Very, very close to 252 GB, since .deb files are already compressed.

If it's just the gzip compression you want, surely there must be real filesystems that can do that.

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