From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 18 11:01:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26546 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26510 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA12103 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:01:07 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199805181801.LAA12103@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 21:42:24 -0600 >From: Nate Williams >Terry will pipe up now and try to get us to optimize the rare >case, but as any good engineer nows that penalizes the standard >case for the rare case is always a bad idea. I'm certainly not even going to try to speak for Terry (or anyone else but me). That said, I'll agree that optimizing for the rare case isn't generally appropriate, but ensuring that all cases (even rare ones) are handled *correctly*, is nearly always worthwhile. MHO, of course. david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message