Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone fails to detect certain changes in files

[Justin Patrin]

On 8/23/07, Nuno Lucas <address@hidden> wrote:
> It seems my use of monotone and mount options enters in conflict with
> the inodeprints optimization:
>
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>
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos/data$ mtn st .
> Current branch: etpos.master
> Changes against parent a597159c0133529d4f4a17d053507de7f07bb0cd
>   added    factory.bck/etetq/data/TODO.txt
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/304
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/702
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/703
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/304
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/702
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/703
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/mnsg/esp/cmd
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/mnsg/por/cmd
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos/data$ mtn refresh_inodeprints
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos/data$ mtn st .
> Current branch: etpos.master
> Changes against parent a597159c0133529d4f4a17d053507de7f07bb0cd
>   added    factory.bck/etetq/data/TODO.txt
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/docp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/docp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/docu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/docu-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/talp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/talp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/esp/talu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/docp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/docp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/docu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/docu-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/talp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/talp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/fra/talu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/docp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/docp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/docu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/docu-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/talp-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/talp-2
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/fch/doc/por/talu-1
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/304
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/702
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/esp/703
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/304
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/702
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/jnlg/por/703
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/mnsg/esp/cmd
>   patched  factory.bck/etetq/data/mnsg/por/cmd
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos/data$ mtn --version
> monotone 0.36 (base revision: e4bc808d89e029ce623f9e8f2b10c84006b83fb5)
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos/data$ mount | grep home
> /dev/sda3 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
> address@hidden:~/prjs/etpos$ uname -a
> Linux nilo 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
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>
> I believe the problem is that I used a small data conversion program
> that changed the files by mmaping them (it's a small utility to
> convert files with a MS-DOS codepage to ISO-8859-1 and some few other
> simple character table-based conversions), and it seems that use-case,
> with the "noatime" mount option, doesn't get noticed.
>
> Not sure if it really is a bug or something I should expect because of
> the way my system is setup and the way I work with the mmaped file.
>

Are you using inodeprints? Go to your workspace and try "rm
_MTN/inodeprints" and see if it detects your changes. You would also
try "mtn refresh_inodeprints".

-- 
Justin Patrin