Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:25:45 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tags for snapshots? Message-ID: <19980718002545.A2174@astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0yxIbs-0006LN-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>; from Niall Smart on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:04:12PM %2B0100 References: <mph@pobox.com> <E0yxIbs-0006LN-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:04:12PM +0100, Niall Smart wrote: > > I find the prospect of that much disk I/O that often to be fairly > > unpleasant... > > Eh? Putting down a tag requires that CVS modify (approximately) all of the files in the repository. Frequent tagging will cause a great deal of disk I/O on freefall, and likewise for everyone who maintains a copy of the repository. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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