From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lbsfn-0001ST-Ax for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:29:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08507E0496; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mbox.unige.ch (mbox.unige.ch [129.194.9.209]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EEDE0496 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Received: from deleron ([129.194.54.121]) by mbox.unige.ch (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTPS id <0KFK0008GA9ND8F0@mbox.unige.ch> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:29:47 +0100 (CET) From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:29:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1234257125.18160.2016.camel@localhost> <49A206A7.3050604@gentoo.org> <49A39CE7.4010201@gentoo.org> In-reply-to: <49A39CE7.4010201@gentoo.org> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <200902240929.44778.george@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e0e34807-1c7a-4b83-8476-57034d9e6169 X-Archives-Hash: c42160f7efbdf3be6ae58f1d5a275f4b (Ok this thread grew too long, so I gotta chime in :)) We could start using extended attributes or mandate reiser4 for portage dir= or=20 some other special "in between" (the inside of file and its name) feature.. Sorry for the noise and insane "implementation" suggestion :).. George PS Actually, come to think of it, reizer4 might be just the right tool for the= =20 job (for keeping the volatile info split into bunch of small entries),=20 hypothetically of course.. Tuesday, 24. February 2009, Luca Barbato =D0=92=D0=B8 =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0= =B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B8: > Luca Barbato wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> Because your proposal addresses none of the underlying problems which > >> GLEP 55 was created to solve. > > let's get some numbers to have an idea of the dimension of the problem. [skip] > > Please come up with other numbers or saner implementations to compare. > > lu