Re: Git as a filesystem

On 2007-09-21 13:41:07 +0200, Peter Stahlir wrote:

My motivation is whether it is possible to run a system, for example
Debian on a computer on top of gitfs, and then have a huge mirror on
it, for example a complete 252GB Debian mirror as space efficient as
possible.

I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would
be. :)

Very, very close to 252 GB, since .deb files are already compressed.

If it's just the gzip compression you want, surely there must be real
filesystems that can do that.

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