From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:02:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnx1x9g8g9p.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec7e5c30504111623309582d5@mail.gmail.com> (Magnus Damm's message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:23:02 +0200")
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
>> (iv) You fail to propose a better solution.
>
> I would feel safer with back end storage filenames based on email and
> mtime together with an optional hash lookup that turns collisions into
> worse performance. But that's just me.
Have a look at bazaar-ng (http://www.bazaar-ng.org/), they seem to do
this. I had a quick look at it and they also seem to store the full
files when they change (similar to git). It is also a bit ahead of git
(started earlier) and looks quite promising.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-12 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-11 22:40 Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga) Pedro Larroy
2005-04-11 22:51 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 23:23 ` Magnus Damm
2005-04-12 10:02 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2005-04-12 9:59 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-04-12 12:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-12 15:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-14 15:54 ` Eric D. Mudama
2005-04-12 16:35 ` Eric Rannaud
2005-04-14 8:30 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-14 13:35 ` Eric Rannaud
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