Re: [PATCH 0/5] Suggested for PU: revision caching system to significantly speed up packing/walking
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- Nick Edelen <sirnot@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 8, 2009, 07:40 UTC
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- <c77435a80908080040l4c92c68du777fbff5a9a2aca2@mail.gmail.com>
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> That might be useful, but I was thinking more of an "alternates"-like > mechanism between repos. So that the data is stored only once on disk > and in the disk cache, which is helpful for sites like kernel.org which > serve many similar repositories.
Oh, right. Yes, that seems like it could work. We'd have to be careful that a shared cache slice wouldn' change (like in a fuse or something), but other than that we could have something as simple as a link.