On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:00:27 +0200 (MET DST), Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>  
>  [I know this should be discussed after 1.5 is out the door, but I'll give

>  you some time to think about it by poting it now ;-]
>  
>  
>  Something that we should address soon is to reduce the number of
>  I-nodes. Extracting pkgsrc.tgz takes LONG already, and this will get
>  worse. I think of something like moving
>   
>  patches/patch-*         -> patch-*
>  files/*                 -> *
>  pkg/*                   -> *
>   
>  Saves three dirs for each pkg, plus three more CVS dirs => >6000 dirs
that
>  do not have to be created and populated, plus another three files in each
>  of the three CVS dirs => >9000 files safed. While I do not care for the
>  Inodes, I do care for the speed gain.
>   
>  Currently pkgsrc is like 48000 files and dirs, and I think this would be
>  some gain.

I completely agree - the current structure which we inherited doesn't scale
well. This would be a big win, as far as I'm concerned.

Regards,
Alistair

--
Alistair Crooks (agc@pkgsrc.org)





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