On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:22:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sorry, you are right.
>
> Perhaps pick a reasonably small but not insanely small value, like 16kB,
> forget about the atomicity issues for now, as an interim improvement
> patch?
I'm fine with that. We can probably go a bit higher than that. From my
limited testing[1]:
Linux 2.6.18: ~128K
Linux 2.6.23: huge? I tried ~350K and it worked fine
Solaris: huge? I tried ~350K and it worked fine
Freebsd 6.1: ~256K
So it seems that we could probably go with something more like 64K, and
then only truly pathological cases should trigger the behavior.
-Peff
[1] All numbers are approximate and determined experimentally with
something like:
for i in `seq 1 $n`; do
touch $long_filename-$i
done
ls * | wc
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