Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:37:33 +0200 | From | "Peter Stahlir" <> | Subject | Re: Git as a filesystem |
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> Peter Stahlir wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem? > > Like having git on top of ext3. > > > > This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one > > pack file sitting on the disk which is a compressed > > version of the whole system. > > I am not interested in a version controlled filesystem, > > only in the space saving aspects.
2007/9/21, Muhammad Tayyab <mail.tayyab@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I think it would be a bad idea to use Git as a part of filesystem. If > someone wants to install it and use it, its his choice, but if we make > it the part of Filesystem, and just use it for compression, this will > reduce the performance. > For compression, i think more preferable is to make a patch for ext3 > that implements the compression, like compression patch for ext2.
As I understand it the compression patches for ext2 only compress a single file. I think gitfs would compress much better because it deltifies between all files. So if you are not interested in performance but space efficiency a gitfs would be nice.
Peter
P.S.: I was told that there exists a fuse based gitfs at http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/ But I think our goals differ.
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