From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: svn to git, N-squared? Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060612043949.20992.qmail@science.horizon.com> <9e4733910606120832xaf74e77pad7f70df864541fc@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606120855p1cec9acfy62dadb89c11756b4@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606120922g181a5aaal623fd3f29b839f4c@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606120932k5b6f7acfra3f3a26168454f47@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "linux@horizon.com" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 12 18:57:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FppjR-00056A-6q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:57:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751090AbWFLQ5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:57:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751418AbWFLQ5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:57:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62665 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751090AbWFLQ5h (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:57:37 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5CGvTgt020334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:57:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k5CGvSuJ027915; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:57:29 -0700 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606120932k5b6f7acfra3f3a26168454f47@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.75__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > 64 files in tmp. > > But the SVN repository itself has 411,000 files in it. Split between > > two directories. > > I'm doing all of this on ext3. I have plenty of free disk space so I > can make another partition and switch to a new file system after I > install the new RAM. What would be the best one to try? Doing that > would provide a data point to determine if this is a problem with file > system performance or the misuse of file systems. I'm sure there are better filesystems to try for this kind of insane schenario, but at the same time, I really cannot imaging that the 411,000 files is a "normal" thing. There _must_ be some way to have SVN not do that in the first place (or git-svnimport). Is this what happened when the SVN people started using fsfs? Linus