rpm package with many files inside

[Florian Festi]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Jan Chadima wrote:
>> Hello All
>> I need to create rpm package with cca 500000-1000000 tiny files inside. The whole tree is about 2-3GB binary data. Koji dies with "error: Unable to create immutable header region." There are existing bug
> 
> One million files means (at 4KiB per file even if its length is one byte) about 4GiB of space
> on most filesystems (everyone except reiserfs, IIRC).
> 
> And I don't want to imagine the stress that one-million-files rpms can cause to the
> rpm/yum machinery, which is quite slow even in normal usage.

There have been major efforts to speed up transaction with a lot of files 
and reduce the memory foot print. A few million files should now be 
installable. Don't try this with rpm 4.4.2. Of course this remains a huge 
pile of data/files that is not supposed to be processed in a few seconds.

Florian