From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 18 02:44:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05851 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05844 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01142; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:43:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd001139; Sat Jul 18 02:43:34 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05959; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:43:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807180943.CAA05959@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: tags for snapshots? To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 09:43:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980718002545.A2174@astro.psu.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Jul 18, 98 00:25:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. Seems to me that tags should be expresed in terms of dates; this presumes a write lock for the apllication of the tag... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message