Re: Smoke.sh

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:39:51PM -0700, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:24:38PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote:
> > How long does it take rsync to say "delete that file"? Although, I
> > admit, I'm spoiled with a cable modem.
> 
>     You could try a few experiments with and without make distclean,
> and compare the rsync statistics for each run.
> 
> > Once there is actually a distro, perhaps it would be a good idea to put
> > in a comment to tell people with fat pipes they can safely comment out
> > the line.
> 
>     Why bother?  What's the benefit?

I've got perl code I wrote for BSD to emulate gnu cp's cp -l (use hard links
rather than copying)
I hope that [cloning the tree with links and deleting the old tree] is faster
than [make distclean] but I've not yet trialled it to time it.

Now someone's going to tell me why make distclean is better than a fresh
new copy.

Nicholas Clark