Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:30:50 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propose for Several Dump types Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412151120120.14979-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <41C04029.7010909@gamersimpact.com>
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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
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