From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 17 21:26:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14612 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA14560 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA02845; Sat, 18 Jul 98 00:25:50 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id AAA02190; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:25:46 -0400 Message-Id: <19980718002545.A2174@astro.psu.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:25:45 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Niall Smart , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tags for snapshots? Mail-Followup-To: Niall Smart , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Niall Smart on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:04:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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