From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git performance Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <000901c93490$e0c40ed0$a24c2c70$@com> <20081023163912.GA11489@coredump.intra.peff.net> <000001c9358f$232bac70$69830550$@com> <20081024142947.GB11568@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "George Shammas" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 24 21:08:05 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtS0q-0000Z0-Cf for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:07:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751556AbYJXTGm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:06:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752505AbYJXTGm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:06:42 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:42603 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbYJXTGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:06:41 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so354110eyi.37 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=kYHG/17M5SXMeOgWz2pZVL3w1/4RbjjEtS4YJNRkAhg=; b=FVD8Mc8v8U83PousB4vmaS3aYz8ZZTN8WEWOl53rprLobuMg5RtgD4zlt/dA0ZnHPF a4TgZS14p+J9lfxgoEX/LC4JHEJ8PavYFsCzVJ6c9qknIQAt8+N8TxV6PpYrFxbsbi5K oOUv4tnXryGdCUjQ5CuFqo4hAYqXSAnyrQryo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=QVc2D5EuE974YXDxqo2QwmL6ikgY+Kjxwl+vQqd2FxwX8j5AteRybxYUf6h6LmoJ17 arp3r4Bf57Eb4yUN0i1J1NGPvhedoms5Is88rRfK+7/qajfe3JhIoA57fPjKBIcUH6q1 46/XpHwj35X619JcKWMWsF2od3S083wZLVcwc= Received: by 10.210.30.1 with SMTP id d1mr2789429ebd.31.1224875199306; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwm208.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.236.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm801120eyf.8.2008.10.24.12.06.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m9OJ9XDO023259; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:09:43 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m9OJ9Moq023255; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:09:22 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "George Shammas" writes: > If you are really trying to backup a filesystem, you may want to look > at a filesystem that can do snapshots, it would be a lot more > efficient then a version control system. Such as NILFS and ZFS. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Or ext3cow, or (currently in early stages of development) Tux3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3cow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux3 -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git