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Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:49:16PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>
>> > > The mailing list is not documentation.
>> >
>> > Yes. It is. They are called "archives".
>>
>> Random users have no idea what to search for in the mailing list
>> archives to find out that specifying "-x" to mount will cause a
>> performance improvement.
>
>As maintainer of two FAQs, may I humbly point out that this is grist for
>a FAQ mill. Someone needs to be monitoring the mailing list, looking
>for questions that come up a lot and add them to the FAQ, even if only
>as a link into the mailing list archives. This solves the "mailing list
>is not documentation" problem: the FAQ item puts a useful title on the
>solution, like "How do I increase Cygwin performance?"
>
>No, sorry, I am not volunteering. :) I don't want to maintain 3 FAQs.
Been here long? We have a FAQ maintainer. (David, you are still there,
right?)
I don't agree that this is FAQ material. What is the FAQ?
"How do I make my file lookups faster?"
Use "mount -x"
I don't think so. There are too many gotchas with doing this and I think
that they fall outside of the role of a FAQ, if for no other reason
than this *isn't* a frequently asked question.
Updating the documentation, however, is the right way to go.
cgf
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