Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 22.08.19 um 20:02 schrieb Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi): >> We have a diskimage/fileysystem that has a 50G Git repository + 900G >> of binary/build articles and untracked files. When we mount such a >> diskimage, The verify first “git status” command can take as long >> 40-50minutes. Subsequent “git status” finish in under 5-10 seconds.> >> If I had a diskimage of just the 50G source repository, and I mount >> and do a “git status” takes around 15 seconds. > Are you saying that you commonly mount and unmount the filesystem? > > Git tracks a device number in the index. Could it happen that it is > different every time you mount the filesystem? I read the above to mean that a diskimage file is treated as a virtual block device on which a filesystem image exists, and it is mounted via the lookback device mechanism. In such a case, I do not think stability of i-num would not be an issue (the filesystem image would record them all). > You may set "git config core.checkStat minimal" to avoid the problem. > But it may come with its own problems (certain kinds of modifications > would not be noticed, although these would be hard to trigger in practice). Yeah.
