From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:41:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating objects manually and repack
Message-ID: <9e4733910608040841v7f4f27efra63e5ead2656e07@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608040818270.5167@g5.osdl.org>

On 8/4/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 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