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
