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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:54:24 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs vs mount points
Message-ID:  <199612141154.MAA25600@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612141142.TAA16572@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Dec 14, 96 07:42:29 pm"

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As Peter Wemm wrote:

> > cvs usually begins by lstat'ing all parent directories up to "/" and
> > then all entries in "/".  There are usually a lot of mount points in
> > "/" and lstat'ing them can take a long time if their vnodes are not
> > cached.  E.g., my IDE cdrom on /b takes a couple of seconds to start
> > up.

> It's just doing a getcwd() library call I think..

Yep, this feature of getcwd() is very annoying.  It's always a good
idea to mount slow devices or NFS servers into a second-level
directory, like /tmp_mnt. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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