Re: Creating objects manually and repack
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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- Aug 4, 2006, 15:41 UTC
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On 8/4/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> I'd suggest against it, but you can (and should) just repack often enough > that you shouldn't ever have gigabytes of objects "in flight". I'd have > expected that with a repack every few ten thousand files, and most files > being on the order of a few kB, you'd have been more than ok, but > especially if you have large files, you may want to make things "every <n> > bytes" rather than "every <n> files".
How about forking off a pack-objects and handing it one file name at a time over a pipe. When I hand it the next file name I delete the first file. Does pack-objects make multiple passes over the files? This model would let me hand it all 1M files.
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com