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Re: svn speed traversing slow filesystems

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caipclassic dot rutgers dot edu>
Cc: dberlin at dberlin dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:53:12 -0500
Subject: Re: svn speed traversing slow filesystems
References: <200511191514.jAJFEIU4008764@caipclassic.rutgers.edu> <1132427291.22177.39.camel@dyn9002219071> <200511220320.jAM3KQe7024493@caipclassic.rutgers.edu>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:20:26PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> Some OSes (like linux I believe) cache the lookups of the parent
> directories so the speedups are not as pronounced.  However GCC is
> developed, and SVN is probably used, on many more places than just
> linux filesystems.  I know my solaris box would benefit and I believe
> others also if the i/o in SVN were switched to use chdir instead.
> 
> Please consider it.

For Solaris, I learned recently, the preferred solution to this problem
is actually "openat" and friends.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

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