Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:42:28 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > We thought about this too (filesystems are where I got into kernel hacking), > but dismissed it as a Linux only solution. As much as I'd like it to be > otherwise, BK is not a Linux only product. Whatever we do needs to work on > NT (shudder) as well as all the dinosaur Unixen.
NT has a facility to monitor changing files. You could run a daemon :-)
> We do have more to work with because we have both the revision history and > the checked out file in each work area. So we can play games with those > to try and simulate the "what's changed since" operator. It's NFS which > screws that up.
Not just NFS. It's me when I back-touch files to control Make (Emacs backtouch-mode ;-), or rename files, or my CMOS clock breaks, or I have to do an fsck. The last applies especially to kernel development on one machine...
Just checking 100GB of files _locally_ is pretty tedious.
Heck, just calling _stat_ on a typical source tree can be immensely time consuming over NFS. Like, a minute.
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