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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:40:55 -0600
From: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
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To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch performance with large trees
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Catalin Marinas wrote:

>Miika Komu <miika@iki.fi> writes:
>  
>
>>Our project (*) uses tla for storing a complete, modified linux kernel.
>>tla 1.2 is far too slow for e.g. commits and listing changes with the
>>configuration we use. Just yesterday I did a commit that finished in 15
>>minutes even with revision libraries (greedy+sparse).
>>    
>>
>
>What machine are you using? Do you work over NFS?
>
>I also use arch for storing the Linux kernel and I'm quite happy with
>it. It is, indeed, better to hard-link to the revision library. I
>noticed that it gets slow with time so I re-create the tree with
>"tla get --link" from time to time.
>  
>
Do you realize that "tla changes --link" will re-link the tree without 
having to rebuild it?

Has anyone tried breaking up the kernel repository with configurations? 
It seems like the kernel would have some natural dividing lines that 
could be used to decrease how large the individual trees are.
John
=:->


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