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Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again)

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Jan 5, 2011, 17:13 UTC
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<201101051813.57603.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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<AANLkTimHb8O6s_KfhSGqvStZkEGWvPeAVcqQkYoyk49j@mail.gmail.com>
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>  now that of course leaves you with the problem that you now have
> potentially hundreds if not thousands or tens of thousands of
> .torrents to deal with, publish, find etc. etc.

Umm, I'm counting 202400 objects in my git.git and 1799525 in a clone of linux-2.6.git. So I'm not sure how far you want to split things into single transfers, but going all the way down to objects will massively hurt performance.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 5, 2011
  2. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 5, 2011
  3. Thomas RastJan 5, 2011
  4. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 5, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 6, 2011
  6. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 6, 2011
  7. MaaartinJan 5, 2011
  8. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 6, 2011
  9. Maaartin-1Jan 6, 2011
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 6, 2011
  11. Maaartin-1Jan 8, 2011
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 8, 2011
  13. Nicolas PitreJan 7, 2011
  14. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 7, 2011
  15. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 7, 2011
  16. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 8, 2011
  17. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 8, 2011
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 9, 2011
  19. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 9, 2011
  20. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 9, 2011
  21. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 13, 2011
  22. Sam VilainJan 13, 2011
  23. Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonJan 14, 2011
  24. Sam VilainJan 16, 2011
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