Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Apr 27, 2005, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20050427213250.GA8211@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <87r7gw3p6p.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:06:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

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> * H. Peter Anvin:
> 
> > Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> Benchmarks are actually a bit tricky because as far as I can tell,
> >> once you hash the directories, they are tainted even if you mount your
> >> file system with ext2.
> >
> > That's what fsck -D is for.
> 
> Ah, cool, I didn't know that it works the other way, too.  Thanks.

If htree support is disabled, e2fsck -D sorts by name, which was a silly thing to do. I should change it to sort by inode number instead (trivial patch). This might not be a problem for the maildir format, given its naming convention.

						- Ted

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