Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com

doc/bugs/How_to_use_a_DRA_bucket_in_Google_cloud_storage__63__.mdwn

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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+Git annex's special S3 remote doesn't seem to work with DRA buckets in Google cloud storage.
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+I created a DRA-style bucket in Google cloud storage:
+        
+    gsutil mb gs://gitannex-dra
+
+Then followed [this hint](https://gist.github.com/jterrace/4576324) to
+set up use of GCS. Except that it didn't work:
+
+    git annex initremote gcs type=S3 encryption=none host=storage.googleapis.com port=80 bucket=gitannex-dra
+    initremote gcs (checking bucket...) git-annex: Invalid argument.
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+Wheezy, git-annex version: 5.20141024~bpo70+1
+
+### Please provide any additional information below.
+
+There didn't seem to be any extra logs and `--debug` didn't seem to add anything useful.

doc/bugs/git_annex_direct_-__62___rename:_does_not_exist/comment_4_3c7a7a0983d3a75a04395141aaf16dbb._comment

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnwNDA50ZupMvOgpgDqzDRyu5B-mYlVwa4"
+ nickname="Andreas"
+ subject="comment 4"
+ date="2015-01-21T07:30:51Z"
+ content="""
+This is what I see:
+    
+    ➜  ~  mkdir test
+    ➜  ~  cd test 
+    ➜  test  git init
+    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/deas/test/.git/
+    ➜  test git:(master) 
+    ➜  test git:(master) git annex init
+    init  ok
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    ➜  test git:(master) touch foobar.txt
+    ➜  test git:(master) ✗ git annex  add
+    add foobar.txt ok
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    ➜  test git:(master) ✗ git annex  direct
+    commit  
+    [master (root-commit) a6e3d83] commit before switching to direct mode
+    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+    create mode 120000 foobar.txt
+    ok
+    direct foobar.txt 
+    /home/deas/test/.git/annex/misctmp/tmp6895: rename: does not exist (No such file or directory)
+    
+    leaving this file as-is; correct this problem and run git annex fsck on it
+    direct  ok
+    ➜  test git:(annex/direct/master)
+"""]]

doc/bugs/huge_multiple_copies_of___39__.nfs__42____39___and___39__.panfs__42____39___being_created.mdwn

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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+I have 2 indirect mode repos, both on network filesystems, that I have only used for adding
+data on one end, then syncing via `git annex sync` and `git annex get`.  The problem
+is that`.nfs` copies are being made for each git annex object data file, e.g:
+
+`./.git/annex/objects/34/2x/SHA256E-s4112535690--c5f0e5a8af7bf17dd4a8ca192c8ddfb01fe6ec10908c80cffa5ac64c00e28443.vtk.gz/.nfs0000000006d0018600002147`
+
+Reading up on .nfs files, they are generated when "an open file is removed but is still being accessed".
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+Clone a git annex repo on a network file system,  run 
+`git annex sync` ,
+`git annex drop` ,
+`git annex get` 
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+* git-annex version: 5.20140818-g10bf03a
+* 2.6.34.9-69.fc13.x86_64 fedora 13
+* 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 centOS
+
+### Please provide any additional information below.
+
+[[!format sh """
+# If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here.
+# If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log
+
+
+# End of transcript or log.
+"""]]

doc/forum/scalability_with_lots_of_files.mdwn

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+What is git-annex's [[scalability]] with large (10k+) number of files and a few (~10) repositories?
+
+I have had difficult times maintaining a music archive of around 20k files, spread around 17 repositories.
+
+`ncdu` tells me, of the actual files in the direct repository:
+
+<pre>
+$ ncdu --exclude .git
+ Total disk usage: 109,3GiB  Apparent size: 109,3GiB  Items: 23771
+</pre>
+
+Now looking at the git-annex metadata:
+
+<pre>
+$ time git clone -b git-annex /srv/mp3
+Cloning into 'mp3'...
+done.
+Checking out files: 100% (31207/31207), done.
+0.69user 1.72system 0:04.65elapsed 51%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 47732maxresident)k
+40inputs+489552outputs (1major+2906minor)pagefaults 0swaps
+$ git branch
+  annex/direct/master
+* git-annex
+  master
+$ wc -l uuid.log
+7 uuid.log
+$ find -type f | wc
+  31429   62214 3013920
+$ du -sh .
+361M    .
+$ du -sch *  | tail -1
+243M    total
+</pre>
+
+So basically, it looks like the git-annex location tracking takes up around 243M, 361M if we include git's history of it (I assume). This means around 8KiB of storage per file, and 4KiB/file for history (git is doing a pretty good job here). (8KiB kind of makes sense here: one file for the tracking log (4KiB) and another directory to hold it (another 4KiB)...)
+
+Is that about right? Are there ways to compress that somehow? Could I at least drop the *history* of that from git without too much harm - that would already save 120MiB...
+
+That repository is around 18 months old.
+
+(It's interesting to notice the limitation of the "one file per record" storage format here: since git-annex has so many little files, and all of those take at least $blocksize (it seems like it's 4KB here), it takes up space pretty quickly. Another good point for git here: packing files together saves a *lot* of space! Could files be packed *before* being stored in the git-annex branch? or is that totally stupid. :)
+
+Thanks! --[[anarcat]]