From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 16:06:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03592 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03425; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15284; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:04:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd015236; Wed Sep 16 16:04:56 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18310; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:04:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809162304.QAA18310@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:04:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, joelh@gnu.org, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809162155.OAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 16, 98 02:55:38 pm 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Whether this means you use the tool that BSD intends you use (mtree), > > or whether you reorder the contents of the archive, is really > > irrelevent. The point is we know *what* to do, and it doesn't > > matter *how* it gets done. > > This is stupid; you are suggesting we force the application to optimise > for the filesystem it's running on? > > I'd have to compare this with rectal insertion of the cart into the > horse. That's a McCarthy "or", like "||". If the first expression ("use mtree") evaluates to true, then you don't have to "force the application to optimise for the filesystem it's running on". 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-current" in the body of the message