On 8/4/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd suggest against it, but you can (and should) just repack often enough that you shouldn't ever have gigabytes of objects "in flight". I'd have expected that with a repack every few ten thousand files, and most files being on the order of a few kB, you'd have been more than ok, but especially if you have large files, you may want to make things "every <n> bytes" rather than "every <n> files".
How about forking off a pack-objects and handing it one file name at a time over a pipe. When I hand it the next file name I delete the first file. Does pack-objects make multiple passes over the files? This model would let me hand it all 1M files. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html