Re: [Gnu-arch-users] preparing to stress test tla with linux-2.5

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Tupshin Harper <address@hidden>

    > I'm going to attempt to create an arch archive of the kernel 2.5 sources 
    > including all changesets from 2.5.0-present. (Has anybody done this 
    > yet?). 

A few.   I'll add you to the list of people waiting for the
inode-signature optimization to speed up commit.   And to the list of
people to whom I should, in some sense, be advocating breaking the
kernel up into a multi-project config.


    > So the questions are:
    > 1) Are there any additional steps you would peform in this process?

I'll leave that to people experienced with this.

    > 2) Is it useful to do any cacherevs along the way, or is caching not 
    > useful until I need to do a get?

Assuming that your scripts manage project trees (aka working
directories) sensibly, it should be fine.    


    > 3) Would you envision any additional problems that might bite me?

For others, I hope.


-t