On 30 August 2013 20:55, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> [...] using git instead of the file system for storing the contents >> of Debian Code Search. The hope was that it would lead to fewer disk >> seeks and less data due to gits delta-encoding > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > > A choice of gzip, lzjb and more recently lz4 compression; snapshots > and/or deduplication both reduce the amount of disk blocks and cache > memory needed. > > I've pondered before at this overlap in functionality between packing by > Git, and those features of the ZFS filesystem. They are doing much the > same thing but with different granularity. It would be neat if they > could work together better.
I haven't finished packaging bedup - btrfs deduplication tool. Anybody have benchmarked that, if that's any good and/or comparable to zfs deduplication? lzo compression is also available. And well available in linux kernel. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhluibdvtshc5dbtwobf67xdexnjpumafcpvx1auj37te...@mail.gmail.com
