Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>, Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Changing the VDB format
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:52:31
Message-Id: m3bky8k2n0.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Changing the VDB format by Matt Turner
1 >>>>> "MT" == Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> writes:
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3 MT> For example the 'EAPI' file
4 MT> that contains a single character will consume a 4K block on disk.
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6 the sort of filesystes one expects to be used for /var all store short
7 files either directly in the inode or in the directory entry¹.
8
9 that said, Fabian’s suggestion of tar(1)ing those files sounds like a
10 winner.
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12 a number of tools and editors allow r/w access to tar(5) files,
13 including to the individual files therein.
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15 1] or at least unix/linux filesystems all used too....
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17 -JimC
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19 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6