An old blog entry by Darren about how he used ZFS to make fast TeamWare bringovers got me thinking that I should be able to do the same for Mercurial.
So instead of documenting
yesterdays
Glassfish
experiment,
I started playing with ZFS.
It didn't take me many minutes until I had a working script that mimic'd
a hg clone /path/to/repository.
This cut down the clone time for
JDK 7
from four minutes down to one second!
Now I'm putting it into a Mercurial extension which I hope to make available here later on.
Posted by Darren Moffat on September 20, 2006 at 04:04 AM PDT #