The following reply was made to PR install/37521; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: install/37521: qemu install from NetBSD-current install
	floppiesfails
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:30:40 +0200

 On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Stephen Borrill wrote:
 >  Why swap round stat and open?
 
 stat on ustarfs is expensive.  I might need to search through many
 floppy disks before discovering that the file doesn't exist.
 
 The build process used to take care to create the ustarfs file system
 with files packed into the archive in the same order as the open
 attempts, to minimise or eliminate seeks through multiple floppies.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)