Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 21:39:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, 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 Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809180239.VAA02906@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <l03020900b2267dcfd654@[194.32.164.2]> References: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 -0000." <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com> <l03020900b2267dcfd654@[194.32.164.2]>
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>>>> 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
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