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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:14:46 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?
Message-ID:  <20010602181446.A24621@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:34:53AM -0700
References:  <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:34:53AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net>, Maxim Sobolev
> <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> 
> > Actually we could save much more disk space by collapsing one-line
> > pkg-comment files into either pkg-descr or Makefile [bikeshed
> > pending]. This way we could free about 5MB (5,000 files * 1,024
> > bytes wasted per file) w/o any significant disadvantage.
> 
> Agreed, but why bother?  5 MB is _nothing_.  The ports collection
> isn't a space hog, and it never has been one.
> 

The disk space that would be saved is quite insignificant, and not
really something to be bothered about. 
More interesting is probably that 5000 inodes would also be saved. This
should also make cvs/cvsup of the ports collection somewhat faster.




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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