Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch and linux 2.7

[Pau Aliagas]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Karel Gardas wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> 
> > > > -add performance hooks addressed to expert users (sorry for the
> > > >  self-promotion, it's not on purpose :)
> > > >  * sparse revision libraries
> > > >  * hard-linked trees
> > >
> > > I remember somebody reporting terrible performance while committing
> > > a single changeset to the linux repository; something like 20 minutes.
> >
> > He was using tla-devo-1.0 without the inode signatures optimization.
> > These are the things that should make into a decent howto :)
> 
> Does it mean that inode signatures optimization is supported for explicit
> tagging method. That would be great news for me! (sorry, but I don't
> follow Arch's development these days...)

I'm afraid not but... no need for it if you use hardlinked trees :)
Patch would detect the identical inodes and optimize it anyway.

Pau