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by Dylan16807 505 days ago
> Next you clone the firefox-source hg repo, which will use about 15% of the space and 80% of the inodes.

Looking at my mozilla checkout the source and repo average 6KB per file, which would eat lots of inodes.

But once I compile it, it's more like 20KB per file, which is just fine on default settings. So I'm not sure if the inodes are actually the limiting factor in this scenario?

And now that they're moving to git, the file count will be about 70% smaller for the same amount of data.