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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:11:29 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Robin Green <address@hidden>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:20:34AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> > > That possibility -- the "smart file system" -- sure sounds exotic and
> > > unlikely but I _can_ see it being worthwhile. If you wanted to make
> > > a distro that was _really_ _really_ tuned for developers .....
> Exotic and unlikely?
> Well, actually, the Linux and Irix kernels, for example, both support
> userland notification of inode modification events.
Oh, I know quite well that the foundational support is there (albeit,
non-portably). The next step is actually _using_ that stuff to
optimize arch in particular. And the next step after that is getting
people to want such a configuration.
> Of course, that's unlikely to work properly with remote NFS shares,
> I would imagine - unless NFS _also_ has such a feature.
Sure -- we're off in the realm of customized solutions, not portable ones.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Chris Mason, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Tom Lord, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Chris Mason, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Tom Lord, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Chris Mason, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, tomas, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Momchil Velikov, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Tom Lord, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Robin Green, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Chris Mason, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Tom Lord, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/28