Re: A simple request (was Re: boring BK stats)

Rogier Wolff
2002-10-11T14:09:40Z

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Jeff:
>
> The trick is that I would have hardlinked trees. Thus
>
> linux-2.2.18.clean/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
> and
> linux-2.2.18.rio/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
>
> would have the same inode number, and diff wouldn't even bother to
> open the file....

FYI:

Just tested the how long it takes to make a diff between my
2.2.18-clean tree and the 2.2.18.rio tree:

cold cache over NFS: 25 seconds
warm cache over NFS: 13 seconds
warm cache LOCAL disk: 0.34 seconds.

Roger.

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