Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Bazaar 1.3 preview

[David Allouche]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 04:03 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:06 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > >       * just grouping revisions by archives leads to too big
> > >         directories, that's not a good use filesystem storage.
> > 
> > If you really want to solve the too-big directories issue, you'll need a 
> > more sophisicated approach than just splitting the revision name off the 
> > end.
> 
> Yah.

Sure.

Using fs-independent storage would be useful anyway because the cache is
badly hitting the worst-case space behaviour of ext3, in particular with
all those small ancestry files. 

But grouping revisions by version just seems a reasonably useful and
simple way to do it without going all the way to zipfiles, sqlite or
whatever.

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