On Sep 21 2007 13:46, Peter Stahlir wrote: > >For example, imagine running a complete Debian mirror on top of a >Debian system with gitfs. How big would the packfile be for this 252GB >beast?
Probably 252 GB. Lots of the packages are already compressed, and each time a minimal change is done, the bytestream changes, so long story short, deltifying between to compressed streams is likely to deltify horribly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
