From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 26 13:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29477 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29428 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09350 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:35:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199802262135.NAA09350@austin.polstra.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A 'make world' suggestion... In-Reply-To: <008401bd42d5$d07a1190$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> References: <008401bd42d5$d07a1190$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:35:01 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >Whoops! Of course I meant 'rm -rf /usr/obj' below... > > > That would not be good for the case where /usr/obj is the root of a mounted > filesystem (ie: in my case, /usr/src and /usr/obj are NFS mounted). Perhaps > rm -rf /usr/obj/* would be better. Either way, you're right; it's much > faster to toast /usr/obj in advance. There's an even faster way. Put /usr/obj alone in its own filesystem, and replace the "rm -rf" with a umount - newfs - mount sequence. Newfs is the fastest version of "rm -rf" in the world. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message