Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Speeding up mirroring

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> James Blackwell <address@hidden> writes:
>> In libarch/commit.c[arch_commit()], right between arch_finish_commit() and
>> arch_snap_inode_sig(), call arch_update_serial(), which will perform the
>> following:
>
> So that's _how_ many new archive round-trips during a commit?  Some of
> us commit to remote archives over slow links you know...

During commit?  Eight. Four to rm, and four to create files.

During the time that a user pushes or pulls an archive over a slow link?
Depending upon the archive, anywhere from dozens to hundreds of roundtrips
are saved.


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