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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:37:33 +0200
From: "Peter Stahlir" <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>
To: "Muhammad Tayyab" <mail.tayyab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem
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> Peter Stahlir wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem?
> > Like having git on top of ext3.
> >
> > This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one
> > pack file sitting on the disk which is a compressed
> > version of the whole system.
> > I am not interested in a version controlled filesystem,
> > only in the space saving aspects.


2007/9/21, Muhammad Tayyab <mail.tayyab@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>    I think it would be a bad idea to use Git as a part of filesystem. If
> someone wants to install it and use it, its his choice, but if we make
> it the part of Filesystem, and just use it for compression, this will
> reduce the performance.
>    For compression, i think more preferable is to make a patch for ext3
> that implements the compression, like compression patch for ext2.

As I understand it the compression patches for ext2 only compress
a single file. I think gitfs would compress much better because it
deltifies between all files. So if you are not interested in
performance but space
efficiency a gitfs would be nice.

Peter

P.S.: I was told that there exists a fuse based gitfs at
http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/
But I think our goals differ.

files.