Hello,

source code should be compressible, maybe just creating something like
a tar.gz per repo or so? That way you would get much bigger objects
that could improve speed and make it easier to store on any storage
system.

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Am Sa., 30. Jan. 2021 um 16:01 Uhr schrieb Loïc Dachary <l...@dachary.org>:
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> Bonjour,
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> In the context Software Heritage (a noble mission to preserve all source 
> code)[0], artifacts have an average size of ~3KB and there are billions of 
> them. They never change and are never deleted. To save space it would make 
> sense to write them, one after the other, in an every growing RBD volume 
> (more than 100TB). An index, located somewhere else, would record the offset 
> and size of the artifacts in the volume.
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> I wonder if someone already implemented this idea with success? And if not... 
> does anyone see a reason why it would be a bad idea?
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> Cheers
>
> [0] https://docs.softwareheritage.org/
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> Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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