From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:06:46 GMT
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Message-ID: <20100728060646.GA16400@dert.cs.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinabaO3csi3TBRJKPTZ1zVGgK8-ijs6h1YUkT-n@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Also, sqlite is known to scale, is exactly one file
> worth of dependency, what's not to love (other than having to support
> upgrading to 'index vSqlite').

The frequent fsync()-ing.  Though that seems to be a problem with
pretty much anything that does not involve rewriting the index
with each change.

Maybe filesystems will cope better soon. :)