From: C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:57:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505031153550.32767@cag.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200505030724.57827.mason@suse.com>

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:

> your delta generator later this week.  Some quick and dirty space numbers to
> show why we need to pack the files together:

Are you accurately accounting for the cost of the extra hard/soft links 
your scheme requires?  Ie the directories get larger, lookups take 
slightly longer, etc.  Also access to a given file takes longer, and the 
deltas are referring to *other* packed files which *also* take longer to 
decompress and access...

How much better does delta-fication do, compared to just packing?
  --scott

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