Received: from spf5.us4.outblaze.com (spf5.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.27]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA5HEkdT005887 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:14:47 GMT Received: from hera.museatech.net (unknown [207.166.200.220]) by spf5.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 312DC76E85 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:14:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 26983 invoked by uid 110); 5 Nov 2004 17:14:37 -0000 Received: from gnu-arch-dev-bounces@lists.seyza.com by hera by uid 102 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.262913 secs); 05 Nov 2004 17:14:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hera.museatech.net) (127.0.0.1) by hera.museatech.net with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 17:14:36 -0000 Delivered-To: list-gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com Received: (qmail 26927 invoked by uid 110); 5 Nov 2004 17:14:29 -0000 Received: from aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca by hera by uid 102 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(207.166.200.250):. Processed in 0.226395 secs); 05 Nov 2004 17:14:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b.mx.e-outsourcers.net) (207.166.200.250) by hera.museatech.net with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 17:14:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 5671 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2004 17:09:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server4.panoramicfeedback.com) (66.216.124.41) by master.alal.net with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 17:09:46 -0000 Received: from utoronto.ca (server4.panoramicfeedback.com [66.216.124.41]) by server4.panoramicfeedback.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id iA5HDvil012183; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:13:58 -0500 Message-ID: <418BB4D5.2050507@utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:13:57 -0500 From: Aaron Bentley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040309) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anand Kumria Subject: Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: GNU arch 1.3pre1 testing candidate now available References: <87u0s9meuf.fsf@flame.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Panometrics-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on b.mx.e-outsourcers.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: Cc: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org, gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a mailing list for GNU Arch developers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: gnu-arch-dev-bounces@lists.seyza.com Errors-To: gnu-arch-dev-bounces@lists.seyza.com Status: RO Content-Length: 833 Lines: 25 Anand Kumria wrote: > The only regression I'm aware of is that is seems a lot faster on NFS > mounted (read, local directories going via an automounter) home > directories. > > Has there been a particular change in this area? Since when? vs 1.2, yes, there's a very significant change: inode-sigs don't store device #, so tla doesn't have to compare unchanged files nearly as often. These changes were also in 1.2.1 and the 1.2.2 release candidates. > I'm somewhat concerned > since the wiki mentions that having your home directory on nfs is bad and > wicked and excruitatingly slow With the inode-sig changes, it should be much faster and just as safe. Aaron _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-dev mailing list Gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com http://lists.seyza.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-dev