Re: packs and trees

On 6/21/06, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

quoted

On 6/20/06, Jon Smirl [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The plan is to modify rcs2git from parsecvs to create all of the git
objects for the tree.

Sounds like a good plan. Have you seen recent discussions about it
being impossible to repack usefully when you don't have trees (and
resulting performance problems on ext3).

What do you mean?

I was thinking of the "repacking disconnected objects" thread, but now
I see it did have a solution in listing all the objects and paths. I
take that back.

If you are asking about the ext3 performance problems, I think Linus
discussed that a while ago, why unpacked repos are slow (in addition
to huge), and there were some suggestions of using hashed directory
indexes.

cheers,


martin