linux-kernel - Re: Git as a filesystem

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709211449370.30810@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:51:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@...glemail.com>
cc:	Muhammad Tayyab <mail.tayyab@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem

On Sep 21 2007 13:46, Peter Stahlir wrote:
>
>For example, imagine running a complete Debian mirror on top of a
>Debian system with gitfs. How big would the packfile be for this 252GB
>beast?

Probably 252 GB. Lots of the packages are already compressed, and
each time a minimal change is done, the bytestream changes, so long
story short, deltifying between to compressed streams is likely to
deltify horribly.
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