Re: [PATCH] multi item packed files

From

KHKrzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>

Date

Apr 22, 2005, 09:48 UTC

Message-ID

<m3r7h3rvjz.fsf@defiant.localdomain>

In-Reply-To

<200504211622.48065.mason@suse.com>

Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> writes:

> Shrug, we shouldn't need help from the kernel for something like this.
>  git as 
> a database hits worst case scenarios for almost every FS.

Not sure.

> 1) subdirectories with lots of files

Correct. But git doesn't search dirs so it's not that bad.

> 2) wasted space for tiny files

... depends on block size. With 2 KB:

Not bad, is it?

> 3) files that are likely to be accessed together spread across the whole disk

... across the whole filesystem.

-- 
Krzysztof Halasa