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.
-- Martin Verges Managing director Mobile: +49 174 9335695 E-Mail: martin.ver...@croit.io Chat: https://t.me/MartinVerges croit GmbH, Freseniusstr. 31h, 81247 Munich CEO: Martin Verges - VAT-ID: DE310638492 Com. register: Amtsgericht Munich HRB 231263 Web: https://croit.io YouTube: https://goo.gl/PGE1Bx Am Sa., 30. Jan. 2021 um 16:01 Uhr schrieb Loïc Dachary <l...@dachary.org>: > > Bonjour, > > 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. > > 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? > > Cheers > > [0] https://docs.softwareheritage.org/ > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io