> I am investigating the performance versus complexity trade-offs
> of converting METALOG to a btree(3) file, and using db(1) to
> add entries that are currently manually added with "cat -l",
> and also using db(1) to dump the info into pax.  If this works,
> it should speed up the "maketars" and "installsets" targets in
> distrib/sets when using UNPRIVED...

Would that stop the file growing after repeated update builds?

	David

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