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| From: | heroxbd@g.o | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas | ||
| Date: | Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:37:32 | ||
| Message-Id: | 86r486jcjc.fsf@moguhome00.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas by Alex Xu |
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| 1 | Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca> writes: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > This doesn't really help. Consider that deltas require both a *start* |
| 4 | > and *end*. It's not as simple as adding it all up, since you would need |
| 5 | > a 19-3d, then 3-1d, then 1-0d. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | In this case, 19-18d, 18-16d, 16-0d, instead. The largest delta is |
| 8 | always used for the most recent. That's why we need 8 pieces of 2d |
| 9 | delta and 16 pieces of 1d delta. |