Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

Stop being sensible! There is no room on this list for such behaviour.

brucee

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:49 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> >> > what extra work would that be,
>> >>
>> >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /)
>> >
>> > i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared
>> > blocks.
>>
>>  He doesn't want a single copy though, he is hoping to mirror
>> sourcesdump. That's 2255 almost-copies of sources. Yes, there will be
>> changes in each snapshot, but how often does something like
>> /extra/python.iso.bz2 change?
>
> exactly.  the point i was trying to make, and evidently
> was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't
> be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the
> new/changed files from all the dump days.  this would
> be a useful comparison because this would give a
> measure of how much space is saved with venti over
> the straightforward algorithm of copying the changed
> blocks, as ken's fileserver does.
>
> - erik
>
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