Hello ! I'm working on a project which will handle big binary files (.deb files). I've noted that Arch stores each files twice (in order to check data integrity, if I've rightly understood, cf. http://wiki.gnuarch.org/Ask_20Arch_20questions?action=refresh&arena=Page.py&key=Ask_20Arch_20questions.text_html#head-9fbf906184b7b40ad6cc10c85c68d8a77afa250e). This is doubling the size of my archive, loosing a lot of space :(.
I'm wondering if it's possible to deactivate this system (that is, store each file only once…) and, moreover, why checksum are not used: it seems to me that it could be sufficient to insure data integrity and could free a lot of space (I'm surely wrong for one reason or another, but I would like to understand why…). Thank you in advance, Simon Geusebroek. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
