Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:47:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) 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 Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809180047.RAA03745@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809162325.QAA00532@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 16, 98 04:25:26 pm
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> > 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".
>
> Yeah, great. Let's just "optimise", say, INN to call mtree. And CVS.
> And cp, mv and friends.
cp -R does. Do does mv across FS's. INN is, by definition, bredth-first,
since there are significantly more articale transfers than news group
creation/deletions (unless you are silly and don't follow David Lawrence,
pain that he can be...).
> Crap. The job of the filesystem is to provide optimal performance for
> typical application usage. Why do you think UFS already has
> behavioural tweaks for small files? Do you want to modify applications
> so they never create small files?
No. I want a very deep directory tree that consists of directories
empty of anything other than directories that are empty of anything
other than directories ... that *finally* have files in them to be
created by an appropriate tool before the files are populated by
an inappropriate tool.
> You're pushing the application/filesystem boundary in the wrong
> direction, and your Clydesdale has a sore rear.
This bud's for you... 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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