Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > > Anybody who uses extended attributes as part of a indexing scheme is 
> > > just insane. Modifying the file you are indexing is not just 
> > > fundamentally wrong to begin with, but it will then also be 
> > > incredibly inefficient to read those entries one at a time.
> > 
> > It's a typo and you are saying it _is_ fundamentally wrong, aren't 
> > you?
> 
> Not a typo, and I'm sayin that "it's not _just_ fundamentally wrong"
> 
> So yes, it's fundamentally wrong, but it's worse than that. It's 
> fundamentally wrong _and_ it's inefficient as hell.

I haven't looked at Beagle's source code either, but as a _user_ I can say 
that it really became horribly, horribly slow after half a year of normal 
usage.

And yes, uninstalling Beagle, backing up the files, reformatting and 
putting the files back (to really get rid of the extended attributes 
already in the file system) helped.

So the first thing I did, back when I still used openSUSE, was to 
uninstall Beagle after the system install.

Ciao,
Dscho