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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:06:46 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Also, sqlite is known to scale, is exactly one file
> worth of dependency, what's not to love (other than having to support
> upgrading to 'index vSqlite').

The frequent fsync()-ing.  Though that seems to be a problem with
pretty much anything that does not involve rewriting the index
with each change.

Maybe filesystems will cope better soon. :)