Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] prepman: do not compress files =128 bytes
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:51:49 -0400 James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: MF == Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes: MF +SIZE_LIMIT='128' The limit probably should be larger, given that nothing which fits into one filesystem block will use less space compressed. While it's usually true btrfs does not store things in blocks and allocates space in byte ranges. All filesystem (data or meta) modifications are copy-on-write thus it does not needs growth holes by design. -- Sergei signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] prepman: do not compress files =128 bytes
On Thursday 21 March 2013 07:51:49 James Cloos wrote: MF == Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes: MF +SIZE_LIMIT='128' The limit probably should be larger, given that nothing which fits into one filesystem block will use less space compressed. In many cases a limit of 4096 would be appropriate. But a limit of 1024 should cover the lowest common denominator. realistically, there are no man pages that are under 4k. look at the referenced bug for more details. you're also ignoring things like tail packing. i really don't want to start customizing code for FS idiosyncrasies that are not reliable. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
