From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:41:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Sort of a feature proposal
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805071139010.23581@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <86fxsutbke.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On Wed, 7 May 2008, David Kastrup wrote:

> 
> Hi, I have some large git repositories on a USB drive (ext3 file
> system).  That means that when replugging the drive, the recorded st_dev
> data in the index is off, meaning that the whole repo directory
> structure gets reread as the stat data of all directories has changed.
> 
> That's a nuisance.  Can't we have some heuristic or configuration option
> where we, say, record the st_dev of the _index_ file, and if that has
> changed, we propagate that change to the st_dev of its contents?  I'd
> like to see something that works more efficiently than rescanning the
> whole disk every time I hibernate my computer.

Maybe simply ignoring st_dev is the solution?  I hardly can see what 
value it had to the other stat fields.


Nicolas