Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> You are atypical.  On my system, for any given build I do, all the files
> fit in core and are already in the cache if I've done a previous compile
> recently, and the only disk activity is writing of new bits that the
> computation rarely blocks on.

Ok, perhaps I haven't been paying enough attention, or I've just been
doing too much on my laptop.