From: "Edésio Costa e Silva" <edesiocs@gmail.com>
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Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:39:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073a5540504221039332e712@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504220844390.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>
On 4/22/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >
> > However you're right that the original structure proposed by Linus is
> > too flat.
>
> You're wrong.
>
> The thing is, having 256 sybdirectories already eats one _megabyte_ of
> diskspace on common filessystems. If you expand that to be either deeper
> (ie subdirectories within subdirectories), or use more than 8 bits for the
> first level, you'll be using much more.
>
> A megabyte of diskspace is peanuts for a project like Linux, but I think
> it matters for small projects. I want git to work reasonably even for
> really trivial stuff.
>
> For example, if you just expand the fan-out to use 12 bits instead of 8,
> you're now using 16MB of diskspace just for the directory structure, even
> for a trivially small project. I just think that sucks.
What if the directory structure is sparse?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-22 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 10:00 [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Tom Lord
2005-04-20 10:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-20 17:15 ` duchier
2005-04-20 22:40 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 9:09 ` Denys Duchier
2005-04-21 10:21 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 11:46 ` [Gnu-arch-users] " duchier
2005-04-20 22:51 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 19:04 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-21 20:35 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tom Lord
2005-04-20 23:04 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-21 0:05 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Denys Duchier
2005-04-21 20:39 ` [Gnu-arch-users] " Tom Lord
2005-04-21 7:49 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 21:51 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tom Lord
2005-04-21 21:52 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-22 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 17:39 ` Edésio Costa e Silva [this message]
2005-04-20 21:31 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:55 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-20 22:22 ` chunking (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git') Linus Torvalds
2005-04-20 23:42 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-22 21:02 ` blowing chunks (quick update) C. Scott Ananian
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