Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262902AbVDHRhQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:37:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262898AbVDHRhP (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:37:15 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:11223 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262893AbVDHRgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:36:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4256C0F8.6030008@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:35:52 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Matthias-Christian Ott , Andrea Arcangeli , Chris Wedgwood , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Warning: 24.25.22.197 is listed at orbz.gst-group.uk.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 30 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >>SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. > > > After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree > to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. > > Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my database without having > to re-send the whole crap - it only needs to send the new stuff. > > You do that with an sql database, and I'll be impressed. Well... it took me over 30 seconds just to 'rm -rf' the unpacked tarballs of git and sparse-git, over my LAN's NFS. Granted that this sort of stuff works well with (a) rsync and (b) hardlinks, but it's still punishment on the i/dcache. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/