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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:42:29 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs vs mount points 
Message-ID:  <199612141142.TAA16572@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:47:14 %2B1100." <199612140847.TAA32126@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> cvs usually begins by lstat'ing all parent directories up to "/" and
> then all entries in "/".  There are usually a lot of mount points in
> "/" and lstat'ing them can take a long time if their vnodes are not
> cached.  E.g., my IDE cdrom on /b takes a couple of seconds to start
> up.
> 
> Bruce

It's just doing a getcwd() library call I think..

Cheers,
-Peter



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