[RFC] kbfiles: an extension to track binary files with less wasted bandwidth

[Martin Geisler]

"Na'Tosha Bard" <natosha at unity3d.com> writes:

> Hi Martin,
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
>
>> One problem they mentioned is the per-file overhead: Instead of
>> having 200 files of 1 GB, they have 20,000 files, each of which is
>> just 10 MB. That is kind of upside-down compared to what I expected.
>> How many big files do you have in your repository?
>
> We apparently have 31 files in our main repository, but I have some other,
> less used ones, that have several hundred.

Okay, that was also the kind of numbers I had imagined: ~50 files of
maybe 100+ MB.

> None have proven to be a problem, but you do raise a good point. I'd
> like to see Benjamin or Andrew's feedback.

Me too :-)

-- 
Martin Geisler

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