On Monday 01 September 2008, Petr Rockai wrote: > I have been thinking about that approach before, but have discarded it > on the paranoia argument. It still might be worthwhile: the downside > is, that repair would pollute the pristine.hashed with a very large > number of stale files: basically, any intermediate repository states > that we write out, which aren't that few. So we really want to call > clean_hashed every now and then while running repair (I think ext3 > might have issues with very large directories, too, and also for space > reasons...).
ext3 cannot handle more than 32768 files in a directory, or more than 32768 hard links to a file. A directory with many files also becomes slow. I guess the 32K limit poses a problem to the patches directory as well if the project gets to have a lot of recorded changesets. -- Dan _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
