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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?

  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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