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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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Michael Poole |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:17:11 -0400 |
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Tom Lord writes:
> > From: Matthieu Moy <address@hidden>
>
> > If you have a 1MB binary file managed by arch, all revisions modifying
> > even a single bit of this file will contain the full binary. You will
> > quickly end up with a 100Mb archive.
>
> I haven't priced disks (in detail) for years.
>
> You're talking about a 1MB binary file with 50 modifications. If
> spread over a year, that's one modification every week. We might
> expect that some projeccts will bump that rate to, say, 10 to 40 per
> week.
>
> You are talking about pennies per year, dude. Your dad had to
> optimize this situation with the constraints you are thinking of (and
> therefore, didn't bother but ruled the problem "too hard"). You,
> unlike your dad, don't have to worry about it.
Disk space isn't the only metric to look at; bandwidth is another. My
only practical "broadband" connection at home is 144 kbps IDSL --
about 1 MB/minute -- and some are stuck on modems. Having a
binary-friendly diff would help people who dealt with big binary files
over slow connections. So far, though, I have never run into that
problem; and perhaps people who do work on such large files work
around it in some other fashion. The question seems largely academic
to me.
Michael
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Binary diffs (Re: Some issues), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Sriram Ramkrishna, 2004/06/09
- synchronicity (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues), Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09
- Re: synchronicity (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues), Sriram Ramkrishna, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Miles Bader, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Miles Bader, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Sriram Ramkrishna, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues,
Michael Poole <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues (why no bdiff for Arch), James Blackwell, 2004/06/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues (why no bdiff for Arch), Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues (why no bdiff for Arch), James Blackwell, 2004/06/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] binary files, Tom Lord, 2004/06/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] binary files, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] binary files, Bug Goo, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/09