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Re: [PATCH] multi item packed files

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KHKrzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date
Apr 21, 2005, 19:28 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Wrong. You most definitely _can_ lose: you end up having to optimize for
> one particular filesystem blocking size, and you'll lose on any other
> filesystem. And you'll lose on the special filesystem of "network
> traffic", which is byte-granular.

If someone needs better on-disk ratio, (s)he can go with 1 KB filesystem or something like that, without all the added complexity of packing.

If we want to optimize that further, I would try doing it at the underlying filesystem level. For example, loop-mounted one.

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Krzysztof Halasa
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