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--On Friday, May 16, 2003 10:35:26 +0000 Chris Bainbridge
<C.J.Bainbridge@...> wrote:
>> only one file to diff, which in my mind should be more
>> efficient. no more waiting for the 40000 file list to
>> arrive.
Seeing as no-one else has piped up yet... :)
The main problem with using a loopback fs is that we'd then need to require
kernel support for it.
The main problem with using a tar file and rsyncing that is that we have to
tar/untar the whole portage tree each time. That takes a while (and quite a
lot of space) :/
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