Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees

[Momchil Velikov]

>>>>> "tomas" == tomas  <address@hidden> writes:

tomas> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
tomas> [...]

>> 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 .....

tomas> Well, there's fam <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/>.

tomas> I'm sure if someone sets up e.g. a Linux box explicitly to host
tomas> a big project on Arch, [s]he wouldn't mind installing something
tomas> like that.

tomas> So the possibility of Arch taking advantage of such a feature
tomas> (if it's there) sure sounds intriguing.

  Right. I played for some time with the idea of ``arch-agent'' --
similar by design to ``ssh-agent'' -- which keeps a manifest of the
working dir, gets notified by FAM and respons to queries from the
``tla'' process.

  However, at one point a design decision was made not to use
manifests in arch ...

~velco