[patch 0/5] [PATCH CFT] more revlog experiments

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Tue Mar 21 20:15:55 UTC 2006


According to Matt Mackall:
> What filesystem options are you using? Block size? Fragments?

UFS2, 16 KB blocks, 2 KB fragments.

> Less disk space is a good thing, sure. But why do we care about less
> files by itself? The only reason to reduce the file count is to reduce
> disk space. And as we're seeing, it has a negative effect on
> Mercurial's ability to quickly access the data in certain ways (point
> a-d above).
 
In my edge case, less files is good (less inodes and so on), especially for
mirrors.  Less directories would be better but that would probably too
complicated to handle.
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