> So there's about sixty thousand files that get created during the cvs up > (by cvs, I assume - there's nothing else running that touches /usr/ports) > that eventualy get deleted. Is this normal cvs operation? I remember seeing > e.g. a 'benchmarking' subdir besides 'benchmarks' during the cvs up. Does cvs > (speculating) create everything that ever existed in the repo and only then > prune to the current state?
I'm quite sure that it creates a lot of dirs that later gets pruned at the end of checkout because they are empty. Not certain if that accounts for the all of the 60k inodes or not, but at least part of it would be those. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
