From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: brtfs COW links and git
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:15:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110319201532.GA6862@cthulhu> (raw)
I wish git could use COW links. I wish I could put a large binary into git and
have the only underlying filesystem operation be to cp --reflink and to save the
metadata. There are a few complications:
How does it know which files to reflink? attributes? a size limit?
What does git gc do with reflinks?
Should diff-delta be reflink-aware? Perhaps it could query the fs for
blocklists.
Before I dive into implementing this, I'd like to get your comments and advice,
to maximize the chances of success.
Thanks!
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-19 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 20:15 Larry D'Anna [this message]
2011-03-21 12:00 ` brtfs COW links and git Jeff King
2011-03-22 2:44 ` Larry D'Anna
2011-03-22 11:43 ` Jeff King
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