On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 16:22, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 09:59, clime <cl...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 20:58, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:39:19PM +0200, clime wrote:
> > > ...snip... please folks... please trim your posts? :)
> > >
> > > > These are some great stats!
> > > >
> > > > But I would like to note that exploded repos (or source-git repos)
> > > > have at least two other advantages.
> > > >
> > > > 1) they consume less space than tarballs for each version because
> > > > objects in git repo are deduplicated
> > >
> > > But they consume tons more inodes which makes them painfull to
> > > backup/restore/mirror.
> >
> > But maybe still less painful than to do this with upstream tarballs?
>
> No because the things that backups and rsync do works in a slow way.
> We can do the backup the look-aside cache with tar-balls in a couple
> of hours. We can also rsync that in the same amount of time. It takes
> that long or longer to do that with a couple of git trees which are
> much smaller in size but larger in file numbers. Every file in a git
> tree is stat'd and while there is some deduplication, there is a lot
> of files.

Well from scratch, it will be much harder to rsync git repos but imho
that changes once the initial rsync is done because then just new
objects are transferred. + we could possibly use repospanner to mirror
lookaside cache too? The deduplication in git is quite significant
when compared to several tarballs from separate upstream releases.

Anyway, I don't have the operative experience that you guys have so
it's quite pointless for me to argue here.

>
> Could this be solved by moving to some other sort of file system
> model... possibly but we
> a) Have no time to pursue that investigation in a large enough size to
> prove/disprove it
> b) Have no money to purchase the equipment that these file systems work on.
>
>
>
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> Stephen J Smoogen.
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