Hi, Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This would be insane. You suggest that whenever someone requests a tree > of 1000 files, 10Mb, tla should create million of files occupying 10Gb. > [This is optimistic, since just nodes alone of typical 4Kb occupy 4Gb.] I just discovered the `-l' option of `du' as available in GNU Coreutils, so I wanted to share my experience. ;-) Here's what I observe on my revlib: $ du -msl /home/ludo/\{arch-revlib\}/ 1063 /home/ludo/{arch-revlib}/ $ du -ms /home/ludo/\{arch-revlib\}/ 228 /home/ludo/{arch-revlib}/ IOW, the use of hard links yields a compression ratio of 4 (!). Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/