Re: Creating objects manually and repack

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-08-05 01:41:58
On 8/4/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> I'd suggest against it, but you can (and should) just repack often enough
> that you shouldn't ever have gigabytes of objects "in flight". I'd have
> expected that with a repack every few ten thousand files, and most files
> being on the order of a few kB, you'd have been more than ok, but
> especially if you have large files, you may want to make things "every <n>
> bytes" rather than "every <n> files".

How about forking off a pack-objects and handing it one file name at a
time over a pipe. When I hand it the next file name I delete the first
file. Does pack-objects make multiple passes over the files? This
model would let me hand it all 1M files.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Received on Sat Aug 05 01:42:41 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2006-08-05 01:43:17 EST