On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Sivert Berg <sivertb@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
This is an attempt to add a one-file-per-database backend. The main reason I wrote this was because load times of the database on my laptop when it's not yet cached is around 40-50 seconds. When you just want to do a quick "pacman -Ss" that can be a little annoying. I know you have discussed the current database vs. one-file earlier, and I think someone said another backend could be supported too.
This first patch contains the main database code and a program to convert .db.tar.gz and file databases into the new format.
Signed-off-by: Sivert Berg <sivertb@stud.ntnu.no> ---
What about the disk space usage, compared to a simple tar file? Did you ever consider the idea of reading directly tar.gz or reading/writing directly tar, knowing we already have the libarchive dependency.