On 2007-09-21 13:41:07 +0200, Peter Stahlir wrote:

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> My motivation is whether it is possible to run a system, for example
> Debian on a computer on top of gitfs, and then have a huge mirror on
> it, for example a complete 252GB Debian mirror as space efficient as
> possible.
>
> I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would
> be. :)

Very, very close to 252 GB, since .deb files are already compressed.

If it's just the gzip compression you want, surely there must be real
filesystems that can do that.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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