On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:51:21AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > I simply got tired of tilting at that particular windmill when > confronted with some particularly egregious cases (see libguestfs > sometime). $ rpm -qR libguestfs|grep ^/ /sbin/ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig /lib64/rtkaio/librt.so.1 /usr/lib64/sasl2/libanonymous.so.2 /usr/lib64/sasl2/libsasldb.so.2 To resolve 3 strings we have to download 26 MB of data. Getting rid of filelists seems like a bad idea because they are so useful. Implementing them better on the other hand ... At the moment they are stored in a sqlite database which is bzip2 compressed. The filelists DB for Fedora 18 is 26 MB compressed or 143 MB uncompressed. The sqlite database just stores basically the strings as-is. There are some structures which are better for storing strings that have a lot of common prefixes, such as tries and suffix trees. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
