Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:23:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> Roger Leigh wrote: >> > There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them >> > have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use >> > git as a filesystem in its own right (#47

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:23:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them > > have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use > > git as a filesystem in its own right (#477942 is an example of one >

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-08 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 2011-2-8 0:51 , Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: Interesting! It seems that it would also be beneficial to log-structured file systems [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system Cheers, /JP -- Jens Peter Secher, G

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > On 2011-02-07 00:40, Roger Leigh wrote: > > http://www.codelibre.net/~rleigh/hashlink.pdf > > Interesting! It seems that it would also be beneficial to > log-structured file systems [1]. > > I spotted a couple of typos: > >

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-07 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 2011-02-07 00:40, Roger Leigh wrote: > http://www.codelibre.net/~rleigh/hashlink.pdf Interesting! It seems that it would also be beneficial to log-structured file systems [1]. I spotted a couple of typos: Page 4: "Files may be therefore be replaced" => "Files may therefore be replaced" Pa

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: > There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them > have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use > git as a filesystem in its own right (#477942 is an example of one > in a package I maintain). > > I've finally got down to it and writ

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-06 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 06/02/11 23:40, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use git as a filesystem in its own right (#477942 is an example of one in a package I maintain). I've finally got