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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga..
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:42:04 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504072127250.28951@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org>



On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> I'm playing with monotone right now.  Superficially it looks like it
> has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff...  however, it's *agonizingly* slow.
> I mean glacial.  A heavily sedated sloth with no legs is probably
> faster.

Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't actually
seem to be _doing_ anything while it's slow (there are no system calls
except for a few memory allocations and de-allocations). It seems to have
some exponential function on the number of pathnames involved etc.

I'm hoping they can fix it, though. The basic notions do not sound wrong.

In the meantime (and because monotone really _is_ that slow), here's a
quick challenge for you, and any crazy hacker out there: if you want to
play with something _really_ nasty (but also very _very_ fast), take a
look at kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/.

First one to send me the changelog tree of sparse-git (and a tool to
commit and push/pull further changes) gets a gold star, and an honorable
mention. I've put a hell of a lot of clues in there (*).

I've worked on it (and little else) for the last two days. Time for 
somebody else to tell me I'm crazy.

		Linus

(*) It should be easier than it sounds. The database is designed so that
you can do the equivalent of a nonmerging (ie pure superset) push/pull
with just plain rsync, so replication really should be that easy (if
somewhat bandwidth-intensive due to the whole-file format).

Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival
mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though.
Another way of looking at it is to say that it's really a content-
addressable filesystem, used to track directory trees.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-08  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 201+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-06 15:42 Kernel SCM saga Linus Torvalds
2005-04-06 16:00 ` Greg KH
2005-04-07 16:40   ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-08  0:53     ` Jesse Barnes
2005-04-06 16:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-06 19:07 ` Jon Smirl
2005-04-06 19:24   ` Matan Peled
2005-04-06 19:49     ` Jon Smirl
2005-04-06 20:34       ` Hua Zhong
2005-04-07  1:31       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-06 19:39 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2005-04-07  1:40   ` Martin Pool
2005-04-07  1:47     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-07  2:26       ` Martin Pool
2005-04-07  2:32         ` David Lang
2005-04-07  5:38           ` Martin Pool
2005-04-07 23:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08  5:56               ` Martin Pool
2005-04-08  6:41                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08  8:38                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-08 23:38                     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-09  2:54                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-09  0:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09  2:27                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-09  2:32                         ` David Lang
2005-04-09  3:08                         ` Brian Gerst
2005-04-09  3:15                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-09  5:45                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 22:55                           ` David S. Miller
2005-04-09 23:13                             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10  0:14                               ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-10  1:56                                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 12:03                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-10 17:38                                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 17:46                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-10 17:56                                         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10  0:22                             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 11:33                             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-10 17:55                         ` Matthias Andree
2005-04-09 16:33                       ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-09 23:31                         ` Tupshin Harper
2005-04-10 17:24                         ` Code snippet to reconstruct ancestry graph from bk repo Paul P Komkoff Jr
2005-04-10 18:19                           ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-08 16:46                   ` Kernel SCM saga Catalin Marinas
2005-04-07  8:14           ` Magnus Damm
2005-04-07  7:53       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-07  3:35     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07 15:08       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07  6:36   ` bert hubert
2005-04-06 23:22 ` Jon Masters
2005-04-07  6:51 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-07  7:48   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-07 15:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 17:00     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07 17:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 17:47         ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-07 18:06         ` Magnus Damm
2005-04-07 18:36         ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-08  3:35         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-07 19:56       ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-04-07 23:21     ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-07  7:18 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-07  8:50   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07  9:20     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-07  9:46       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07 11:17         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-07 10:41       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-04-07  9:25     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-07  9:49       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07  9:55       ` Russell King
2005-04-07 10:11         ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-07  9:40     ` David Vrabel
2005-04-07  9:24   ` Sergei Organov
2005-04-07 10:30     ` Matthias Andree
2005-04-07 10:54       ` Andrew Walrond
2005-04-09 16:17       ` David Roundy
2005-04-10  9:24         ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-04-10 13:51           ` David Roundy
2005-04-07 15:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 17:09     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07 17:10     ` Al Viro
2005-04-07 17:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 18:04         ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-07 18:27           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07 20:54           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-08  3:41         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-07 17:52       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-04-07 17:54       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-07 18:13         ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-04-07 18:29           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-10 22:33             ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-11  0:00               ` Christian Parpart
2005-04-08 17:24         ` Jon Masters
2005-04-08 22:05           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-08 22:52     ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-08 23:46       ` Tupshin Harper
2005-04-09  1:00         ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-09  1:23           ` Tupshin Harper
2005-04-09 16:52       ` Eric D. Mudama
2005-04-09 17:40         ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-09 18:56           ` Ray Lee
2005-04-07  7:44 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-08  6:14   ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-04-09  1:01   ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-09  8:32     ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-11  2:26     ` Miles Bader
2005-04-11  2:56       ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-11  6:36         ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-07 10:56 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-04-08  0:57 ` Ian Wienand
2005-04-08  4:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08  4:42   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-04-08  5:04     ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08  5:14       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-08  7:05         ` Rogan Dawes
2005-04-08  7:21           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-04-08  7:49             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-08  7:14     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-08 12:02       ` Matthias Andree
2005-04-08 12:21         ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-08 14:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 16:15         ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-08 17:14           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 17:15             ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08 17:46               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 18:05                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08 19:03                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 19:16                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08 19:38                       ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-08 19:48                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08 19:39                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 20:11                         ` Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ] Ragnar Kjørstad
2005-04-08 20:14                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-08 20:50                       ` Kernel SCM saga Luck, Tony
2005-04-08 21:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 17:14                           ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-09  7:20                     ` Willy Tarreau
2005-04-09 15:15                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-08 17:25             ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-08 18:14               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 18:28                 ` Jon Smirl
2005-04-08 18:58                   ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-09  1:11                   ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-09  1:50                     ` David Lang
2005-04-09 22:12                       ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-08 19:16                 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-08 19:32                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 19:44                     ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-09  1:09                 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-08 17:35             ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-08 18:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-08 18:56                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-09  7:37                   ` Willy Tarreau
2005-04-09  7:47                     ` Neil Brown
2005-04-09  8:00                       ` Willy Tarreau
2005-04-09  9:34                         ` Neil Brown
2005-04-09 15:40                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09 16:16                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 17:15                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09 17:35                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09  1:04             ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-09 15:42               ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09 18:45                 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-09  1:00           ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-09  1:09             ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-09  1:21               ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-08  7:17     ` ross
2005-04-08 15:50       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09  2:53         ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-09  7:08           ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-09 18:06             ` [PATCH] " Petr Baudis
2005-04-10  1:01           ` Phillip Lougher
2005-04-10  1:42             ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10  1:57               ` Phillip Lougher
2005-04-09 15:50         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09 16:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 17:08             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10  3:41             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10  8:39             ` David Lang
2005-04-10  9:40               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-10 16:46                 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-04-10 17:50                   ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-12 23:20                     ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-08  7:34     ` Marcel Lanz
2005-04-08  9:23       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-04-08  8:38     ` Matt Johnston
2005-04-12  7:14     ` Kernel SCM saga.. (bk license?) Kedar Sovani
2005-04-12  9:34       ` Catalin Marinas
2005-04-13  4:04       ` Ricky Beam
2005-04-08 11:42   ` Kernel SCM saga Catalin Marinas
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504060800280.2215 () ppc970 ! osdl ! org>
2005-04-06 21:13 ` kfogel
2005-04-06 22:39   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-09  1:00   ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-08 22:27 Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2005-04-08 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09  0:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 16:20   ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09  4:06 Walter Landry
2005-04-09 11:02 Samium Gromoff
2005-04-09 11:29 Samium Gromoff
2005-04-10  4:20 Albert Cahalan

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