From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:28:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] multi item packed files
Message-ID: <m3u0m0q69a.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504210832490.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>

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.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa