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On 01/17/14 17:27, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hello, all. |
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> I'm using squashfs to hold my Gentoo repositories on all of my systems |
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> for some time. As you probably know, this allows me to save space while |
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> keeping portage fast. However, it makes updating the tree quite |
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> burdensome and time-consuming. |
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Me too and you have my total support (maybe I've even proposed this |
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before to te list) |
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> As you can see, the deltas are quite large compared to the actual |
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> changes. However, we could have expected that since we're diffing |
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> a compressed filesystem. What's important, however, is that applying |
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> it takes ~2.5 second on my 2 GHz Athlon64. |
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Have you tried to give an order (always the same) to the compressed files? |
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It could give an advantage, tough it may be limited to 2^16 files the |
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option is -sort <sort_file> |
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thanks for it, |
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Francesco |
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