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diff --git a/bugs/avoid-stat-for-unchanged-directory.mdwn b/bugs/avoid-stat-for-unchanged-directory.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d4a95ba..0000000 --- a/bugs/avoid-stat-for-unchanged-directory.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -[[!tag obnam-wishlist]] - -This is an idea for optimizing Obnam. - -Store MD5 of string containing names + relevant metadata of all -files in a directory, then re-compute that when backing up a -directory: if checksums are same, then no file in the directory -has changed, and there's no need to check each of them separately, -saving many tree lookups - -Consider only non-dirs, since subsubdir can change without it being visible -at grandparent level. Thus, recursing is always necessary. - ---liw - - -[[done]] wishlist has been open for years, no change. --liw |