On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:41:26PM +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, David Roundy wrote: > > >We *really* need to switch to a database pristine cache, as it seems that > >filesytems are shockingly incapable of storing directories of files > >reliably. :( Partly because other programs rudely recurse into the > >directory and modify them, but also because of issues like this one, where > >limitations of either the filesystem or tools that work on the filesystem > >(tar) end up misbehaving. > > Or use Isaac's Haskell File System.
Oddly enough, I just finished composing a lengthy email to Isaac asking about just that! :) The main issue that I see is that halfs can't currently be resized, which means you'd have to decide in advance (or do some sort of ugly copying trick) how big your project will get. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
