Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:54:24 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs vs mount points Message-ID: <199612141154.MAA25600@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612141142.TAA16572@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Dec 14, 96 07:42:29 pm"
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > > cvs usually begins by lstat'ing all parent directories up to "/" and > > then all entries in "/". There are usually a lot of mount points in > > "/" and lstat'ing them can take a long time if their vnodes are not > > cached. E.g., my IDE cdrom on /b takes a couple of seconds to start > > up. > It's just doing a getcwd() library call I think.. Yep, this feature of getcwd() is very annoying. It's always a good idea to mount slow devices or NFS servers into a second-level directory, like /tmp_mnt. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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