Hello Gunnar!

On Thursday 08 January 2009 Gunnar Thielebein wrote:
> First I hope you had a good start in 2009, did you?
Yes, thank you very much. You too, I believe?

> Regarding "reverse search" (looking for md5 of every file in fs) as in
> the last script, should I revert that? It consumes much more time this
> way 
Of course ... it's an MD5 per file >= 128kB.

> and its no problem for replacing that to the use of fsvs st -v, I 
> only tried doing this way because of sorting files to the belonging WC.
> That it's not possible by design to have underlaying $WAA i wasnt aware
> off. 
Sorry, I don't understand you here.

> When using "fsvs status -v $WC" will this work - new version of 
> fsvs on old WAA style?
Yes, as soon as the "dir" and "Urls" => "urls" are migrated into the new 
place.


Regarding the performance problem above ... do you know perl? I think it would 
get *much* faster this way - just put all existing files into some hash 
(possibly by using FSVS to get the list), and then running through the 
reported entries (from "fsvs st -v") should be fast enough ...

If you're using the commandline program "md5sum" in a shell loop, it might be 
sufficient to replace that with a perl loop; that should bring at least 2-10x 
speed improvements (just thought loud, didn't measure).


BTW - do you have some place for versioning this script, or if you don't, how 
about the FSVS repository? I could give you commit access, if you like.


Thank you very much for your effort!


Regards,

Phil


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