On 01/17/14 17:27, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I'm using squashfs to hold my Gentoo repositories on all of my systems
> for some time. As you probably know, this allows me to save space while
> keeping portage fast. However, it makes updating the tree quite
> burdensome and time-consuming.
Me too and you have my total support (maybe I've even proposed this
before to te list)

[snip]

>
> As you can see, the deltas are quite large compared to the actual
> changes. However, we could have expected that since we're diffing
> a compressed filesystem. What's important, however, is that applying
> it takes ~2.5 second on my 2 GHz Athlon64.

Have you tried to give an order (always the same) to the compressed files?
It could give an advantage, tough it may be limited to 2^16 files the
option is -sort <sort_file>


thanks for it,
Francesco

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