From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Flat directory for notes, or fan-out? Both!
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:56:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210165610.GP30949@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902101743180.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > I could do a revert on 'master' if it is really needed, but I found that
> > the above reasoning is a bit troublesome. The thing is, if a tree to hold
> > the notes would be huge to be unmanageable, then it would still be huge to
> > be unmanageable if you split it into 256 pieces.
>
> The thing is, a tree object of 17 megabyte is unmanagably large if you
> have to read it whenever you access even a single node. Having 256 trees
> instead, each of which is about 68 kilobyte is much nicer.
See my other email on this thread; we'd probably need to unpack
all 256 subtrees *anyway* due to the distribution of SHA-1 names
for commits.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 21:12 RFC: Flat directory for notes, or fan-out? Both! Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 7:58 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-02-10 13:16 ` Jeff King
2009-02-11 1:58 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-02-11 2:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-11 3:30 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-11 3:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-11 5:05 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-11 12:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 12:18 ` Jeff King
2009-02-10 12:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 13:10 ` Jeff King
2009-02-10 13:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 15:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-10 16:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-10 16:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 16:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-02-10 17:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-10 19:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-10 21:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 22:16 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-10 22:26 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-10 22:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-11 20:02 ` Jeff King
2009-02-11 20:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-11 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-11 23:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 16:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-10 17:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-10 17:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-11 3:19 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-11 1:14 ` Sam Vilain
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