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Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?

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JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
May 21, 2005, 01:45 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's what, 20 times faster? 
:)
> More, actually, I suspect, since the "-m" version is not only faster, but
> it doesn't do much IO, so you'll not have tons of dirty pages/inodes etc
> afterwards.

Yep. A -lot- of writeback would occur, a few seconds after my original script completed.

	Jeff
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