Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:38:54 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <86y7rxh8v5.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <451AC81E.5070803@centtech.com> (Eric Anderson's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:51:10 -0500") References: <200609271744.k8RHipTS032655@lurza.secnetix.de> <451AC81E.5070803@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes: > No, only inode+direntries need to fit into memory. So an FS with > 1million inodes might take .5MB of memory (estimate). How are you going to do that? Whenever you want to read a file, you'll have to start decompressing the entire tarball from the beginning, since it's a single gzip stream. You can't just seek to an arbitrary position in the stream and start decompressing there. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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