Re: [Monotone-devel] Unix Attributes and Symlinks

[Daniel Dickinson]

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:20:04 -0700
Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Cool!  Aside from being useful themselves, this gives us a much more
> useful basis to talk about extensions to monotone to make this more
> elegant :-).
> 
> Re: the "mtn-add" script -- have you seen the attr_init_functions hook
> table?  Is there any reason it doesn't work for you?

I was originally trying to do this with the version of monotone in
debian 3.1 (sarge), which is rather old, and afaik didn't have
attr_init_functions.  I will try to try out using attr_init_functions
soon(ish).
 
> Can you elaborate more on "monotone's attr get/set commands are
> painfully slow"?

Doing an update of the attributes for /etc, /boot, /root,
and /home/sysadmin for a minimal install of debian (console only, and
only 'base' at that) takes at least twenty minutes on an AMD-K6-2-500
with fast disks and 256 MiB RAM, and even longer on a 604e/160 PowerPC
with 96 MiB RAM.

Doing an mtn commit or mtn add on the other hand only takes a few
minutes.

Cheers,

Daniel

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