Re: [Monotone-devel] slow update/status on NFS

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Richard Levitte wrote:
> I just looked at the patch, and although I can see that it fixes
> things for status, I think it could be taken one step further (and
> thereby generalising the solution) by modifying the file_path class to
> have a status cache.

Shouldn't the OS do that sort of caching? That's probably why there's no 
difference with local filesystems. But why does the kernel not cache NFS 
stat() calls? Can we somehow teach the kernel to do that caching, so we 
don't have to write our own?

Regards

Markus