Ramkumar RamachandraJan Kara wrote:
> Hum, I have somewhat hard time to understand what do you mean by > 'magically optimized syscalls'. What should happen in VFS to speedup your > load?
In retrospect, I think this is a terrible hack to begin with. Tuning the filesystem specifically for git repositories is inelegant on so many levels, I can't recall why I ever thought it would be a good idea. Like all software, Git has scaling issues with ultra-large repositories. Too many stat() calls is just one of the problems: there will be too many objects to do any operation at reasonable speed, and the overall UX would just suck. Instead of growing to a huge monolithic beast that spawns off worker threads for everything and ultimately dying off, I've decided that git should take a different direction: it should work with well with many small easily-composable repositories. I've started work on this already, and it looks very promising.
Let the filesystem people do what they do best: optimizing for all applications uniformly.