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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: "Mr. Berkley Shands" <berkley@cse.wustl.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Severe I/O performance regression 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 or 2.6.8-rc3
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:21:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806002132.GM17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040805223319.GA18155@logos.cnet>

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:46:15PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Some form of changelogging to enumerate what the contents of the
>> 2.6.6-bk6 -> 2.6.6-bk7 delta are and to reconstruct intermediate points
>> between 2.6.6-bk6 and 2.6.6-bk7 is needed.

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:33:19PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Indeed its nasty, the problem is there is no tagging in the main BK repository
> representing the -bk tree's. It shouldnt be too hard to do something about 
> this? I can't think of anything which could help...

It would help me a lot if someone would do something about this.
Distributed development does not require that mainline be
nonreconstructible. I've had serious needs to do this kind of searching
going back to early 2.4.x on several occasions, and nothing is capable
of producing correct results (referring to attempts at cvsps + bkcvs
and other alternatives to this).


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05 17:02 Severe I/O performance regression 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 or 2.6.8-rc3 Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-05 17:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 19:58   ` Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-05 20:46     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 22:33       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06  0:21         ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-06  2:09         ` Andy Isaacson
2004-08-06  2:27           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06  2:42             ` Andy Isaacson
2004-08-06  3:11               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06  8:33             ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-06  8:51               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 18:02   ` Fast patch for " Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-08  8:22     ` Ram Pai
2004-08-16 20:30       ` [PATCH] " Ram Pai
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-06  0:41 Berkley Shands

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