On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Petr Rockai wrote:
Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes:- dividing the cache into subdirectories to avoid bad filesystem performance with large directories.That's http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1536 :-) Petr: how do you feel about this? Do you rate this as being easier than packs? Is it realistic to want this in Darcs 2.4? I am also concerned about backward compatibility. How do we handle this? Format change?
For cache, this should be quite simple. For repos, this would be incompatible change and we probably can't afford to do it just yet.
Isn't it a straightforward format change? Add support to hashed-storage, add an extra line to the format to lock out older darcs and to drive the decision to read/write the new format, perhaps add a conversion command to darcs (otherwise make people re-get to switch formats), and that's it?
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