On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:26:20PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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.
If that works out to be a net win for you, I would love to hear about it.
> Now someone's going to tell me why make distclean is better than a fresh
> new copy.
It's friendlier to your bandwidth (if you care), and friendlier to the
rsync server (which I hope you care about).
- Kurt
