27;d think remembering the largest size seen might be
a reasonable heuristic.
Dave
> For what it's worth, people who want reproducible builds should be running
> tar with options like "--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner" anyway, and
> tarballs created that way avoid
plicitly for a cache dir exclusion,
but I was looking for something a little more generic?
Thanks in advance,
Dave
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you had a multithreaded tar then you could have multiple outstanding
open's and stat's and directory reading with the OS and it could
have a chance to order them for least head movement.
Dave
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there a way to exclude a directory based on the content
> > of that directory? In particular I'm after a way to say
> > 'don't back
* Sergey Poznyakoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I can see that would be needed if regexp was done, but for just fixed
> > exclude names it could be implemented at the moment in the same way
> > that cache dir e
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