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

[Tom Lord]

    > 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