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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:46:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Steve Carlson <stevec@nbci.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FFS performance for large directories?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007312045080.2183-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200008010033.RAA15725@usr07.primenet.com>

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> 
> This is because the tarball is packed up in the wrong order;
> change the packing order (breadth-first vs. depth-first),
> and the "ports problem" goes away.  I have done this with the
> -T option to tar, and it works fine, so long as you have an
> accurate file.  This ensures that there is no cache-busting
> on the dearchive, which is the source of the problem.

Good point.  But what do you mean by saying "have an accurate file"?

-Zhihui



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