Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla on nfs only

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Obviously we do not need to check for corruption of file FOO if FOO will
>> not be read in the course of the current operation.
> Yes.  Unfortunately, we don't know which files in the working directory have
> changed until we look at the revision library.  In that case, we need ALL
> the files in the revlib to be uncorrupted.

So you mean that tla does a diff of every single file?
If not how does it avoid it?  AFAIK it avoids it by using
{arch}/,,inode-sigs in the work-tree (not in the revision library)
in order to get a conservative approximation of what might have changed, at
which point it will only do a diff on those files, so it only needs to
check the inode-sig (in the revlib) of those files who failed the
inode-sig-check in the work-tree.
What am I missing?


        Stefan