Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 09:43:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tags for snapshots? Message-ID: <199807180943.CAA05959@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980718002545.A2174@astro.psu.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Jul 18, 98 00:25:45 am
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> > > I find the prospect of that much disk I/O that often to be fairly > > > unpleasant... > > > > Eh? > > Putting down a tag requires that CVS modify (approximately) all of > the files in the repository. Frequent tagging will cause a great > deal of disk I/O on freefall, and likewise for everyone who > maintains a copy of the repository. Seems to me that tags should be expresed in terms of dates; this presumes a write lock for the apllication of the tag... 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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