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hg clone on NFS

Thursday May 22, 2008

"hg clone" is very very fast if the target volume is a local disk. If it's on NFS, even if it's on a very very fast LAN, the speed degrades to less than 1/10. I guess it's because hg does huge amount of tiny writes.

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