> > Jordan stopped including CVS directories in the /usr/ports tarball.
>
> I don't think a transfer rate can be affected by that, though the
> total transfer time certainly would.
>
> Anyway... Jordan did it? Thanks God!
Ports is 20,000 some odd different files, the transfer rate is limited by
disk I/O in creating those thousands of files. By eliminating some
of the additional tiny files it creats I could certainly see an increase
in throughput.
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