Re: MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday July 10 2015 23:02:57 Clemens Lang wrote: > > (as well as a significant performance bottleneck). > > I am completely at loss how you determine *significant* here. The SQLite `port installed` taking upwards of 20 minutes before apparently doing anything (as suggested after adding -vd)?

Re: MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, me again, - On 10 Jul, 2015, at 20:26, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, registry.db-journal acts more or less like the HFS, EXT3, > NTFS (etc) journals work, More or less, yes. > and should be completely redundant on a COW filesystem Not necessarily. I

Re: MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread Clemens Lang
- On 10 Jul, 2015, at 21:11, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday July 10 2015 15:01:15 Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > > Thanks, but maybe I should rephrase my question: does MacPorts provide a way > to > configure this? I don't doubt sqlite3 allows it, but that wouldn't be of

Re: MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday July 10 2015 15:01:15 Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Thanks, but maybe I should rephrase my question: does MacPorts provide a way to configure this? I don't doubt sqlite3 allows it, but that wouldn't be of much help if I'd have to go in and hack the source code. R. > This might give ideas o

Re: MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
This might give ideas on next steps: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:26 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > I'm experimenting with running MacPorts on a COW filesystem (ZFS; > www.o3x.org). I've noticed the (transient) presence of a file > ${prefix}/var/ma

MacPorts on COW filesystem

2015-07-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I'm experimenting with running MacPorts on a COW filesystem (ZFS; www.o3x.org). I've noticed the (transient) presence of a file ${prefix}/var/macports/registry/registry.db-journal , which makes me wonder if it's possible to configure the way the registry database is accessed (akin to mysql