From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:57:28 GMT
Subject: Re: svn to git, N-squared?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606120942140.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606120932k5b6f7acfra3f3a26168454f47@mail.gmail.com>



On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > 
> > 64 files in tmp.
> > But the SVN repository itself has 411,000 files in it. Split between
> > two directories.
> 
> I'm doing all of this on ext3. I have plenty of free disk space so I
> can make another partition and switch to a new file system after I
> install the new RAM. What would be the best one to try? Doing that
> would provide a data point to determine if this is a problem with file
> system performance or the misuse of file systems.

I'm sure there are better filesystems to try for this kind of insane 
schenario, but at the same time, I really cannot imaging that the 411,000 
files is a "normal" thing. There _must_ be some way to have SVN not do 
that in the first place (or git-svnimport).

Is this what happened when the SVN people started using fsfs? 

			Linus