Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:37:33PM +0200, Peter Stahlir wrote: > > Peter Stahlir wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem? > > > Like having git on top of ext3. > > > > > > This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one > > > pack file sitting on the dis

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 21 2007 15:30, 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 ch

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Stahlir
> >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 > stor

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
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

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Stahlir
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? Peter - 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

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Stahlir
> Peter Stahlir wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem? > > Like having git on top of ext3. > > > > This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one > > pack file sitting on the disk which is a compressed > > version of the whole system. > > I am not intereste

Re: Git as a filesystem

2007-09-21 Thread Muhammad Tayyab
Hi, I think it would be a bad idea to use Git as a part of filesystem. If someone wants to install it and use it, its his choice, but if we make it the part of Filesystem, and just use it for compression, this will reduce the performance. For compression, i think more preferable is to make