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

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Momchil Velikov <address@hidden>
    > 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 ...


In a general purpose sense, that's true.   But if you have a smart-fs
that can keep a manifest that (otherwise transparently) speeds up
`inventory' in a robust way, then I have no objection to support for
that.

-t