From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 01:07:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19305 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19257; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA03309; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:06:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:57:46 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199809162155.OAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 -0000." <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:57:44 +0000 To: Mike Smith From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Cc: 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:55 pm -0700 16/9/98, Mike Smith wrote: [...] >> 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. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message