Re: Git as a filesystem

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To: Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@...>
Cc: Karl Hasselström <kha@...>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>, <git@...>
Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 - 9:41 am

Peter Stahlir writes:


You're proposing to trade off lots of CPU time in fetching many files
from a pack and making the package file -- paid every time someone
requests a package -- for at most 250 GB of space (cf Amdahl's law).

How long are your users willing to wait in exchange for 250 GB of
saved space?  How much CPU are you willing to spend for it?  Compare
those to the cost of a 300 GB hard drive (roughly $65).

There's also the cost to make git support the package format, and to
maintain that code going forward.  Those costs are also large.

Michael Poole
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Messages in current thread:
Git as a filesystem, Peter Stahlir, (Fri Sep 21, 6:51 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Sep 21, 7:11 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Miklos Vajna, (Fri Sep 21, 10:22 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Peter Stahlir, (Fri Sep 21, 7:41 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Nicolas Pitre, (Fri Sep 21, 9:22 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Eric Wong, (Fri Sep 21, 7:33 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Sep 21, 7:42 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Eric Wong, (Fri Sep 21, 10:06 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Sep 22, 8:06 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Peter Stahlir, (Fri Sep 21, 9:35 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Christian von Kietzell, (Fri Sep 21, 11:46 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Nicolas Pitre, (Fri Sep 21, 9:45 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Karl , (Fri Sep 21, 8:53 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Peter Stahlir, (Fri Sep 21, 9:28 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Dmitry Potapov, (Fri Sep 21, 1:29 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Martin Langhoff, (Fri Sep 21, 7:56 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Sam Vilain, (Fri Sep 21, 11:09 pm)
Re: Git as a filesystem, jlh, (Fri Sep 21, 10:38 am)
Re: Git as a filesystem, Michael Poole, (Fri Sep 21, 9:41 am)