Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262918AbVDHS43 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262923AbVDHS43 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:56:29 -0400 Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.98]:53447 "EHLO pimout4-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262918AbVDHS42 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:56:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:56:09 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , Matthias-Christian Ott , Andrea Arcangeli , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-ID: <20050408185608.GA5638@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256C0F8.6030008@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 17 On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:47:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Don't use NFS for development. It sucks for BK too. Some times NFS is unavoidable. In the best case (see previous email wrt to only stat'ing the parent directories when you can) for a current kernel though you can get away with 894 stats --- over NFS that would probably be tolerable. After claiming such an optimization is probably not worth while I'm now thinking for network filesystems it might be. - 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/