From: Martin Uecker <muecker@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: space compression (again)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:39:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050416143905.GA10370@macavity> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504151210590.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:11:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> >
> > So I guess I'll have to implement this and find out, won't I? =)
>
> The best way to shup somebody up is always to just do it, and say "hey, I
> told you so". It's hard to argue with numbers.
The right thing (TM) is to switch from SHA1 of compressed
content for the complete monolithic file to a merkle hash tree
of the uncompressed content. This would make the hash
independent of the actual storage method (chunked or not).
Martin
--
One night, when little Giana from Milano was fast asleep,
she had a strange dream.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-16 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 17:19 space compression (again) C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-15 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 18:45 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-15 19:00 ` Derek Fawcus
2005-04-15 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 14:39 ` Martin Uecker [this message]
2005-04-16 15:11 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-16 17:37 ` Martin Uecker
2005-04-19 12:39 ` Martin Uecker
2005-04-15 18:50 ` Derek Fawcus
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2005-04-15 19:33 Ray Heasman
2005-04-16 12:29 ` David Lang
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