On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 06:10:10PM +0100, Miah Gregory wrote: > The size of the local package database is also a concern. Will any of the > planned changes to dpkg address the size of the database, to make it more > suitable for limited resource devices?
For my test installation, /var/lib/dpkg is 2.8M of du usage. It is interesting to note that the total length of all of the files is actually only 1M, or close to 1/3 of that size, so half the space could easily be recovered by a filesystem capable of storing small files more efficiently than ext2. I have been planning to use jffs for other reasons, and I wonder if it has such a capability. reiserfs seems to do very well with small files, but I imagine that jffs will be better suited for the media. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
