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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.
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