Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261419AbVDJAPH (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:15:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261423AbVDJAPH (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:15:07 -0400 Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.98]:1761 "EHLO pimout4-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261419AbVDJAPB (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:15:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:14:35 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "David S. Miller" , andrea@suse.de, mbp@sourcefrog.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dlang@digitalinsight.com Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-ID: <20050410001435.GA23401@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> <20050409155511.7432d5c7.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 29 On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I understand the arguments for compression, but I hate it for one > > simple reason: recovery is more difficult when you corrupt some > > file in your repository. I've had this too. Magic binary blobs are horrible here for data loss which is why I'm not keen on subversion. > Trust me, the way git does things, you'll have so much redundancy > that you'll have to really _work_ at losing data. It's not clear to me that compression should be *required* though. Shouldn't we be able to turn this off in some cases? > The bad news is that this is obviously why it does eat a lot of > disk. Disk is cheap, but sadly page-cache is not :-( > Since it saves full-file commits, you're going to have a lot of > (compressed) full files around. How many is alot? Are we talking 100k, 1m, 10m? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/