On Wed, 7 May 2008, David Kastrup wrote: > > Hi, I have some large git repositories on a USB drive (ext3 file > system). That means that when replugging the drive, the recorded st_dev > data in the index is off, meaning that the whole repo directory > structure gets reread as the stat data of all directories has changed. > > That's a nuisance. Can't we have some heuristic or configuration option > where we, say, record the st_dev of the _index_ file, and if that has > changed, we propagate that change to the st_dev of its contents? I'd > like to see something that works more efficiently than rescanning the > whole disk every time I hibernate my computer. Hmm. We shouldn't even be using st_dev any more. How did you compile your git version? By default USE_STDEV should be off, and it's been that way for a long time (because st_dev is also not reliable on NFS etc). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
