Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:35:01 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A 'make world' suggestion... Message-ID: <199802262135.NAA09350@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <008401bd42d5$d07a1190$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> References: <008401bd42d5$d07a1190$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>
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> >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
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