Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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).
Looks that way in my Makefile. Maybe I am confused: I just did some
timings (this is ext3 on a USB drive) and got
git svn rebase
Current branch master is up to date.
dak@lisa:/lisa/texlive$ time git svn rebase
Current branch master is up to date.
real 0m4.581s
user 0m2.244s
sys 0m1.492s
dak@lisa:/lisa/texlive$ cd
dak@lisa:~$ sudo umount /lisa;sudo mount /dev/mapper/Medion-reps /lisa;cd /lisa/texlive;time git svn rebase
Current branch master is up to date.
real 0m53.588s
user 0m2.248s
sys 0m2.388s
dak@lisa:/lisa/texlive$ cd;sudo umount /lisa;sudo dmsetup remove /dev/mapper/Medion-reps
[Unplug and replug the USB drive]
dak@lisa:~$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/Medion-reps /lisa;cd /lisa/texlive;time git svn rebase
Current branch master is up to date.
real 0m53.101s
user 0m2.324s
sys 0m2.380s
dak@lisa:/lisa/texlive$
If my guess that the device number of LVM does not change when merely
un- and remounting, but does change when unplugging and replugging is
correct, it would appear that my idea where the time went was wrong and
that the device number has nothing whatsoever to do with the large
amount of lookups (this is a USB2.0 device at High Speed).
Is there a way to completely invalidate the disk cache without
unmounting? How do I verify device numbers?
Thanks,
--
David Kastrup
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