On Fri Feb 13 2015 at 3:27:19 PM Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/13/2015 12:10 PM, Wout Mertens wrote: > > So it's hard to say what the effect is generally, but the disk space > > saving is definitely there. If you are worried about seek times, you > > might want to turn on filesystem compression and run some sort of > > defragmentation if available. > > I don't think compression should decrease *seek* nontrivially (but it is > another way to save space). > Yeah, I was more trying to make a point about I/O in general, but if the overall footprint is smaller and the fs has defragging it will eventually require somewhat less seeks to read the same working set. Trivial indeed. > Once I wondered if using reflinks instead of hardlinks might be better > from some point of view, but it probably won't be a big difference. > Well, in this specific case where the entire store is Write-Once, there is no practical difference methinks... Wout.
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