[Box Backup] Directories in store file

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Johann,

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Johann Glaser wrote:

> I've observed that bbstored is writing some files extremely often. This 
> particular file is associated with a directory which holds a lot of 
> files which are compared.
>
> I've watched the file for a while. It makes a (similar) copy of the file 
> with the extension ".rfwX" which grows from 0 to the size of the 
> original ".rfw" file, then starts over again.
>
> Probably this file is re-written for every file in the client directory. 
> Since we have SVN repositories with several thousand revisions (and 
> therefore entries in the db/revs/ directory), this file is written quite 
> often and seems to be a bottle-neck.
>
> Is there potential for optimization that?

Thanks for spotting that. I'm sure there is a potential to optimise it, 
but I don't think we should do it before releasing 0.11.

Could you file a feature request for it on the Wiki?

Cheers, Chris.
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