Re: cvsup

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    People shouldn't worry about server side overhead all that much.  Cpu
>    cycles are cheap and the cvs tree is completely cached in memory anyway.
>    And the only effect that extra network bandwidth has is that it takes
>    a little longer to run the operation.  Now, granted, we don't want people
>    to be downloading a whole copy's worth of network bandwidth every day,
>    but rsync is close enough that I just don't care.
>
>    One of the original reasons for using cvsup was so people could maintain
>    local branches of the repository.  I don't think people do this much
>    anymore, if they do it all.  Disk space is so cheap these days that
>    keeping a master sync copy and a separate one for local work is not a big
>    deal.
>
> 						-Matt

Not that DragonFly is not already usable - but the time is approaching - 
perhaps Q3 or Q4 2008 - when enough 'good stuff' will converge to give 
it a distinct 'edge'. Especially if the 'major' *BSD doesn't soon find 
its way back to a more predictable and less fragile model.

*Then* the bandwidth and all could very much matter.

OTOH, enlisting more mirrors and managing them appropriately can 
probably happen rather rapidly if/as/when that sort of avalanche begins.

PPPPPP

Bill