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

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Richard Levitte wrote:
> Yes, one could argue that the kernel "should".  As for NFS, there are
> a lot of crap implementations (arguably, NFS itself is crap, so...),
> but if we get back to the kernel, which kernel are you talking about?

Any one mtn is supposed to run on.

> I'm sure some kernels have calls with which you can tune this kind of
> thing, but does it look the same everywhere?  How about in Winblows?

Is there a NFS implementation for Winblows? Or are you afraid that 
Windows doesn't (or only poorly) cache stat() calls to it's NTFS?

> So, this is a tradeoff decision.  Trust all kernels or none, or figure
> out what kernels need som extra help?

Although I'm more of a 'go-fix-the-underlying-implementation-issue!' 
guy, you are probably right in that caching stat() results in monotone 
is sufficiently easy to do.

I'll try to come up with a patch (i.e. new revision).

Regards

Markus