Re: A simple request (was Re: boring BK stats)

Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-10T15:26:50Z

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:28:18AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> In low memory situations you really want to run the tree compressed.
> ON a fast machine do a "bk -r admin -Z" and then clone that onto your
> laptop. I think that will drop the tree to about 145MB which will
> help, maybe. I suspect that you use enough of the rest of your 200MB
> that it still won't fit.

I believe it's the case that all of the trees on bkbits.net are
compressed, so if you originally cloned your kernel tree off of
bkbits.net, it should already be compressed. Larry, would this be a
correct statement?

- Ted