From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 190E21382C5 for ; Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CBC2E0886; Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57667E0886 for ; Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (unknown [IPv6:2a01:4f8:202:4333:225:90ff:fed9:fc84]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EACBB340D7D for ; Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B725678E for ; Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:51 +0000 (UTC) From: "Andrew Ammerlaan" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Andrew Ammerlaan" Message-ID: <1620199973.fcda7818a6e1fc66461f5fe20a124c6feec28c45.andrewammerlaan@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] repo/proj/guru:master commit in: sys-fs/dwarfs/ X-VCS-Repository: repo/proj/guru X-VCS-Files: sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml X-VCS-Directories: sys-fs/dwarfs/ X-VCS-Committer: andrewammerlaan X-VCS-Committer-Name: Andrew Ammerlaan X-VCS-Revision: fcda7818a6e1fc66461f5fe20a124c6feec28c45 X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 08:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: cb1359b7-e35f-40bb-a55e-e09b1ee887ac X-Archives-Hash: cfc830b64e2781322031f365e813e6a7 commit: fcda7818a6e1fc66461f5fe20a124c6feec28c45 Author: Alessandro Barbieri gmail com> AuthorDate: Wed May 5 07:28:59 2021 +0000 Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan riseup net> CommitDate: Wed May 5 07:32:53 2021 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/commit/?id=fcda7818 sys-fs/dwarfs: m-n Signed-off-by: Alessandro Barbieri gmail.com> sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml index c312e8621..a4fd5acb3 100644 --- a/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-fs/dwarfs/metadata.xml @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ + DwarFS is a read-only file system with a focus on achieving very high compression ratios in particular for very redundant data. This probably doesn't sound very exciting, because if it's redundant, it should compress well. However, I found that other read-only, compressed file systems don't do a very good job at making use of this redundancy. See here for a comparison with other compressed file systems.