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Re: are we backing up quiche:/usr/athena/src?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Nov 30 14:04:47 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 14:04:25 EST
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Chad Brown's message of Tue, 30 Nov 93 07:40:24 EST,
<9311301240.AA23797@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 07:40:24 EST
From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
I talked with Greg about this breifly... Basically, the question I
had was whether we wanted to keep the source locally and archive it
periodically somewhere or whether we wanted to just keep the source
in afs and do builds via shadow trees. The later is easier, but Greg
thought that it might be slow enough that people wouldn't want to do
it. I can understand that people might consider it a pain to have to
copy stuff back and forth, but I'm not convinced that we shouldn't be
doing that anyway, and I doubt the speed will really affect most
builds that much...
The problem with using shadow trees with the source in AFS is that it
means that you have to depend on the AFS-NFS translator not inserting
random blocks of nulls into .c files as you access them via the
translator. Mark was telling me that was why he was doing builds with
the source locally, instead of via AFS.
- Ted
