From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 01:45:53 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?
Message-ID: <428E92D1.80408@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505201841550.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>

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