From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 19:42:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10137 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10018; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-151.camalott.com [208.229.74.151]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA13122; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 21:40:21 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA02906; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 21:39:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 21:39:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809180239.VAA02906@detlev.UUCP> To: Bob Bishop CC: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert , mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), phk@critter.freebsd.dk, joelh@gnu.org, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 -0000." <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> Whether this means you use the tool that BSD intends you use (mtree), >>>> or whether you reorder the contents of the archive, is really >>>> irrelevent. The point is we know *what* to do, and it doesn't >>>> matter *how* it gets done. >>> This is stupid; you are suggesting we force the application to optimise >>> for the filesystem it's running on? >> I'd have to compare this with rectal insertion of the cart into the >> horse. > No, he's just suggesting that there is a worst case which is heavily > exercised at the moment, and doing something else would be better. So, should we modify tar and cpio to scan in the entire archive so it can write it breadth-first? Perhaps a modified unshar as well? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message