[Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Mark A. Flacy]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
Miles> 
Miles> I've done somewhat precise calculations of the potential space
Miles> savings, and it's quite substantial on some trees, especially those
Miles> with lots of smallish files.  Time-savings probably would be less
Miles> noticable, because of the recent inode-state-caching speedups.

My belief is that the time-savings would be *negative*, which is one reason
why I'm extremely skeptical about the entire mess.

Miles> 
Miles> Here's the meat of my earlier post on the subject:

Great, that's data on size savings.

Which filesystem type were you using?  ext3?  

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