Re: Careful object writing..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 3, 2005, 19:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505031254550.26698@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050503194739.GA7082@taniwha.stupidest.org>

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

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> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:47:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > Me, I refuse to slow down my habits for old filesystems. You can
> > either fsck, or use a logging filesystem.
> 
> ok, so you're saying everyone use linux ext3 or similar more or
> less...

No. I'm saying
 - you can use git-fsck-cache
 - or you can use a logging filesystem.

I happen to use both.

> how about we drop all the objects in one directory then?

I don't even have directory hashing on, and as mentioned, the logging filesystem is _not_ a requirement. It's just a reality for most of us.

		Linus