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On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:38:05AM +0200, Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o> wrote: |
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> When you have thousands of small files (1-4 blocks), the space saved by |
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> removing all unnecessary whitespaces is minimal at best. |
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> Minimizing the number of files is another story. Unifying manifests with |
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> digest files will save a considerably amount of disk space. |
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not to mention inodes. Thats one of my pet-hates about the tree' size. |
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