From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] multi item packed files
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:28:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0m0q69a.fsf@defiant.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504210832490.2344@ppc970.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:41:12 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Wrong. You most definitely _can_ lose: you end up having to optimize for
> one particular filesystem blocking size, and you'll lose on any other
> filesystem. And you'll lose on the special filesystem of "network
> traffic", which is byte-granular.
If someone needs better on-disk ratio, (s)he can go with 1 KB filesystem
or something like that, without all the added complexity of packing.
If we want to optimize that further, I would try doing it at the
underlying filesystem level. For example, loop-mounted one.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-21 15:13 [PATCH] multi item packed files Chris Mason
2005-04-21 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 16:23 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-21 19:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2005-04-21 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 9:40 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-04-22 18:12 ` Martin Uecker
2005-04-21 20:22 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-21 22:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 0:16 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-22 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 18:58 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-22 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 20:32 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-22 23:55 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-25 22:20 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-22 9:48 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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