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

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 23 May 2007 12:16:22 +0200, Markus 
Schiltknecht <address@hidden> said:

markus> > I'm sure some kernels have calls with which you can tune
markus> > this kind of thing, but does it look the same everywhere?
markus> > How about in Winblows?
markus> 
markus> Is there a NFS implementation for Winblows? Or are you afraid
markus> that Windows doesn't (or only poorly) cache stat() calls to
markus> it's NTFS?

Let's say that I've read the following page a few times too many:

http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/os-suck.html

Basically, I've been around too long to expect that everything is
dandy everywhere, just because MY operating system does (just about)
what I want exactly the way I want...

markus> Although I'm more of a 'go-fix-the-underlying-implementation-issue!' 
markus> guy,

I'm entirely with you there, but considering such fixes often trickle
through slowly, or sometimes not at all, we still need to figure out
what the best path is today.

markus> you are probably right in that caching stat() results in
markus> monotone is sufficiently easy to do.

Doesn't look so hard at first sight at least.  I'm working on other
stuff right now, so all I've time for is talk a little bit ;-).

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

Good.

Cheers,
Richard

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