On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 02:45:55PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > - we already have wasted space due to the low-level filesystem (as > > opposed to "git") usually being block-based, which means that space > > utilization for small objects tends to suck. So you really want to > > prefer objects that are several kB (compressed), and a small block just > > wastes tons of space. > > Not on (say) reiserfs, and not over the network. I'm proposing (at the > moment) easy conversion from chunked to unchunked disk representation, > so that you can leave things unchunked if (for example) you know you're > running ext2 with a large block size.
Or if one does not care about space, and simply want's speed, add another layer of indirection - a flattened container object which has hashses as normal, then as it's content simply has the 'chunk list object' and the 'chunk objects' concatenated. It's then a per user / database as to if the flattened objects, or the heirarcal objects are storred locally. DF - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
