Re: packs and trees

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 6/21/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> > On 6/20/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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