From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757238AbXIUL2C (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:28:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752887AbXIUL1y (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:27:54 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:62902 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbXIUL1y (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:27:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D8/+NAqIP7u1dl6n+TBgO211IhM7EOCTiQnn/R/Q7sf5rZ+ZWMFUHbDnGa19kv8cwdh4Ix+OerbLhr9kBUbDe+F+ynrd4VupFh0wNOLZmXob0kGKb4AwMV2j9l1AtyabeVpPA+OvWPPZeG4EVYNgB0ZEChReUYfm5vaJ05OREwk= Message-ID: <46F3AAC1.5050409@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:28:01 +0500 From: Muhammad Tayyab User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Stahlir CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I think it would be a bad idea to use Git as a part of filesystem. If someone wants to install it and use it, its his choice, but if we make it the part of Filesystem, and just use it for compression, this will reduce the performance. For compression, i think more preferable is to make a patch for ext3 that implements the compression, like compression patch for ext2. On the other hand I liked the idea that we can have a Git based file system with special (non-standard) features. Why not provide the features like repository and other Git features in normal file system. Thanks, -- Tayyab Peter Stahlir wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem? > Like having git on top of ext3. > > This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one > pack file sitting on the disk which is a compressed > version of the whole system. > I am not interested in a version controlled filesystem, > only in the space saving aspects. > > Thanks, > > Peter > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >