On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:33:58PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > ok. Meanwhile i found another counter-argument: the average committed > file size is 36K, which with gzip -9 would compress down to roughly 8K, > with the commit message being another block. That's 2+1 blocks used per > commit, while with deltas one could at most cut this down to 1+1+1 > blocks - just as much space! So we would be almost even with the more > complex delta approach, just by increasing the default compression ratio > from 6 to 9. (but even with the default we are not that bad.)
I think you forgot about reiserfs/reiser4 tails. (At least, I *think* reiser4 has tails. I know reiserfs 3.x does.) BTW, I happen to agree completely with Linus on this issue, but I still figured I'd mention this for the sake of completeness. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
