Re: GNO + HardPressed

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <CAJB1F.6rn@wave.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao) writes:
>                       What happens if I try to do something like "cat
>file1 file2 file3 file4 >> blah", where all five files are compressed? 
>Can someone try this?  Will HardPressed correctly unsqueeze "blah",
>append the other four files, then recompress it?

Haven't tried it, but it certainly should work.

>    I also heard complaints about slow directory access which leads to
>long rehash times in GNO.  Since you can give HP a certain amount of RAM
>as a cache, would it be possible to have it cache directory information
>as well in a future release?

Yup.  Won't be in v1.0.1, but it should be in v1.1.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
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