From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 17:30:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B363616A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A4543D41 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:30:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id DF646148ED; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:30:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:30:50 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Ryan Sommers In-Reply-To: <41C04029.7010909@gamersimpact.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propose for Several Dump types X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:30:51 -0000 On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote: > I like the idea of automated send capabilities. However, what is this > going to mean for the already cluttered GNATS database? I believe the word we are looking for is "catastrophic." We should think long and hard before automating the sending of what might be very large files into GNATS. GNATS is a flat-text=file datatbase with a fragile format and primitive search capabilities (kind of goes with that territory). I don't even want to think about what this would do to its performance (remember that several people mirror it via cvsup.) Having some kind of ability to save off the info is no doubt a good idea, but auto-submitting it isn't. (Imagine for a moment the number of downrev versions of FreeBSD that are still installed ...) mcl