(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 thoth_at_purplefrog.com wrote: > "Peter J. Braam" <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu> ,in message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980427150004.408 > N-100000_at_carissimi.coda.cs.cmu.edu>, wrote: > > > When you are disconnected, there is NO network traffic (cool eh :) ) > > Even when connected, it compiled at a speed that I couldn't remember as > being distinct from compiling to an NFS server (what I normally do). > > Ideally, I should be able to shotgun a gigabyte onto the local cache (if it > were that big) at the speed of the local disk and then watch my network light > turn on solid for the next half hour as the stuff gets synced to the servers. > In the mean time I'd be compiling and/or editing the files I just created. Yes. Right now, connected mode does write-through caching; work has been done to support write-back caching, but it's not in the mainline source. MichaelReceived on 1998-04-28 15:27:06