Re: Optimization tips for SSDs ?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Dec 31, 2010, at 7:30 39PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andrew Doran 
> <ad%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> git, anyone? :-)
>> 
> git over ftp/http badly sucks and AFAIK, admins are reluctant to run
> the git-deamon for resources consumptions' reasons.
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/git/src/refs/ seems
> to be badly damaged anyway ... When I tried to use this repo, it did
> not even kept all the objects integrity, same for the pkgsrc one.
> 

It's not just resource consumption, it's security: why run yet another
daemon of unknown (and probably unknowable) security properties?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb