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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: Which SUP files are available and where ?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509181222.WAA23402@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 18, 95 10:22:13 pm
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> 
> >> As for the long term support, I think we should consider CTM as the
> >> distribution mechanism rather than sup.
> 
> >For those who have a high-speed net connection, CTM is a lose.  It's
> 
> This assumes an infinitely high-speed server or a small number of
> clients.

You run out of ethernet before you run out of CPU power on anything
faster than a DX4/100 with 32MB of memory doing sup services.  A
Pentium 100 can keep a 100Mb/s pipe clear full of sup with 64Mb of
memory.  I would call that very very far from ``infinitely high-speed''
and actually falls into the mid-range systems for me.

> 
> >too easy to get your source tree into a state where CTM decides that
> >it can't do anything, and then you have to do manual repair, whereas
> >with SUP you can just blow away the breakage and automatically get
> >fresh copies with little or no human intervention.
> 
> Use restore(8) to recover a consistent state.

And now folks know why /usr/src is always a seperate partition on my
systems, and on almost everything I sell :-).    I do use restore
a lot around here, infact installs are actuall ``restores'' of my
last known good stable build :-)

-- 
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