From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:44:26 GMT
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinuq9Q_RADtQwvVTn-kDCw7cg7JcdkhbQnek9Tw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100728060646.GA16400@dert.cs.uchicago.edu>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:06, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

SQLite has an option to turn that off [1], but I don't know if it has
an equivalent feature to manually call fsync when you need that.

Anyway, I've been very impressed by SQLite in every way. I'd try it
before designing my own fileformat, especially something involving
binary/sequential search. It's not a large dependency, and can easily
be bundled in compat/.

1. http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous