Delay in files update on filesystem
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11-25-2021 04:47 AM
Hi, I noticed that there is quite a significant delay (2 - 10s) between making a change to some file in Repos via Databricks file edit window and propagation of such change to the filesystem. Our engineers and scientists use YAML config files. If they reload a notebook that loads this YAML config too soon, nothing really changes. It is very confusing and causes unexpected situations and errors.
Is it a bug or feature? Thanks
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11-25-2021 04:55 AM
Not sure, but what I notice is that the responsiveness of the git interface is not very fast.
F.e. creating a new branch from main can take a while. Perhaps this is a similar thing.
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11-26-2021 12:03 AM
Yes, GIT UI is slow too. Based on our research Databricks Repos Files use some network filesystem which is currently quite slow to synchronize changes.
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12-06-2021 09:45 PM
Hi @Jiri Koutny are you still observing slowness?
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12-06-2021 09:45 PM
and same has been observed with API too ? https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/repos.html
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12-13-2021 04:56 PM
Hi @Jiri Koutny ,
Are you still facing slowness issues or not anymore?
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12-16-2021 06:03 AM
Hi, yes it is still slow. I had a discussion with Databricks Repos PM and as far as I understand it, there will be some improvements implemented soon.
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05-05-2022 10:47 AM
@Jose Gonzalez @Atanu Sarkar I'm noticing that the file updates are still slow. I am on 10.4LTS.
When I edit a .py module within a Databricks Repo and import via a notebook in the same folder, the changes are not reflected for many minutes.
Is this expected to be fixed soon?
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03-14-2023 01:41 PM
Just happened to me. Updates to git repo files took ~30 seconds to be reflected in notebook imports.
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01-12-2024 01:45 AM
I have the same issue: changes were done > 1 hour ago in the .yaml file, but when I read it in the Notebook I still see the old version. Detach and re-attach and even the restarting of the cluster (DBR ML 14.2) did not help.
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04-02-2024 03:17 AM
There is a trick: if you execute "%sh ls" command, it forces update of filesystem immediately
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06-25-2024 09:15 AM
Is there a solution to this?
BTW, the "ls" command trick didn't work for me 😞

