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

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Richard Levitte wrote:
> Let's say that I've read the following page a few times too many:
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/os-suck.html

   Linux sucks differently every time a kernel is released.

ROTFL, very nice!

> 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 ;-).

Humpf... I've just added a 'path::status  cached_status;' to any_path, 
with an additional which returns that or gets the status.

The problem now is, that this routine needs to *write* the status into 
any_path.cached_status, requiring that the any_path in question is not 
const, but writable. That breaks a whole lot of any_path & const xy 
routines. And I'm unsure if its good to remove all those consts.


Another way to do it would be, implementing all that caching inside the 
platform dependent 'get_path_status'. But on second thought, this isn't 
that simple as well, because we don't know about the lifetime of the 
underlying any_path class there.

Ideas?


Regards

Markus