From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:49:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <7vr69lihkt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080723164614.GB5283@blimp.local> <20080723191647.GF5283@blimp.local> <20080725055547.GA3699@blimp.local> <20080726153802.GA16868@blimp.local> <7v1w1f155p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080728063128.GA4234@blimp.local> <20080728160446.GA16351@old.davidb.org> <7vbq0ho5g7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , David Brown , Alex Riesen , Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 29 12:50:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNmm9-00012I-Mv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:49:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754971AbYG2Ksr (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:48:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755522AbYG2Ksr (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:48:47 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56282 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754936AbYG2Ksq (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:48:46 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2008 10:48:45 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 29 Jul 2008 12:48:45 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Evt07kFBEVpB1ETYHij8XetNGj/M4d8zMh0s9LI aRWHqMEXSBw3gH X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.66 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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