On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Christian Robottom Reis <k...@linaro.org> wrote:
> By touch I think you mean install, upgrade or remove, and of these I > guess upgrade is the more common case; do you think it is? I think you're right. This hits the end user more than first-time installation - install and remove normally imply an explicit request from the user for something to happen, in which case the user expects to have to wait a bit; upgrades are housekeeping that may happen (and use power and potentially annoy the user) at any time (ish). > Would the overhead be significant even if the tarball wasn't compressed? > I don't understand enough about tar's concatenate and delete performance > to risk a guess. tar's default internal blocksize is 512 bytes, so there would still be overhead but it would be less. I don't think tar really supports random access though, since tar files are sequential and monolithic; having many tarballs instead of just one may be better. ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
