Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic remove the corrupt revlib revision, second try

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:26:27AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> some serious forensic work.  ls -i is no longer useful.  To those
> (like Derek and perhaps Mathieu) who _do_ want the automatic deletion,
> the warning is a useless annoyance because they have no intention of
> doing anything about it.

I agree in general, but if a revlib is on a fs without stable inodes,
the user will get this every time, and tla will be extremely slow.

The slowness is a motivation to fix it, and the warning is a hint
to the problem.

So it's not just a 'useless annoyance'.

I'm not saying I'm completely in favour of it, a real fix might
be to use a different implementation for revlibs -- other than fs.

--
Matt