chunking (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git')

2005-04-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I'm hoping my 'chunking' patches will fix this. This ought to reduce the size of the object store by (in effect) doing delta compression; rsync will then Do The Right Thing and only transfer the needed deltas. Running some benchmarks right now

Re: chunking (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git')

2005-04-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the disk usage results? I'm on ext3, for example, which means that even small files invariably take up 4.125kB on disk (with the inode). Even uncompressed, most source files tend to be small. Compressed, I'm seeing the median blob size being ~1.6kB