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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:57:44 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), 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:  <l03020900b2267dcfd654@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <199809162155.OAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 -0000."             <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com>

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At 2:55 pm -0700 16/9/98, Mike Smith wrote:
[...]
>> 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.

No, he's just suggesting that there is a worst case which is heavily
exercised at the moment, and doing something else would be better.


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