Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 12/04/2004-08:03:13(-0400): Tom St Denis types
> Oh, ok so I'll just format my disk, reinstall Gentoo from scratch so that I
> can not waste 200M of space on 80k small files.

You can always use a loopback device with a filesystem of your choice.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=68215

> That's not really user friendly.  Could have done a JAR like setup for each
> dir of the tree.  e.g. all of app-text be one huge ZIP file [with no
> compression].  Such a setup might be a little slower to add/remove files but
> would waste less space.
>
> The idea would make a little sense though in practice.  When I do "emerge
> sync" instead of fetching 1000s of small files I just check the timestamp on
> the directory zips and download them wholesale.  [Ok so maybe compression
> makes sense here].

How is this method faster or in any way better than rsync?

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