Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:27:39 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin-L Cc: David Starks-Browning Subject: Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary Message-ID: <20010215172739.D10277@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin-L , David Starks-Browning References: <20010214174608.17253.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010214161306.D18567@redhat.com> <20010215000556.23697.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A8B35A8.E8BEEA00@ece.gatech.edu> <20010215135736.27689.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A8C32BC.671471B7@etr-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A8C32BC.671471B7@etr-usa.com>; from warren@etr-usa.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:49:16PM -0700 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple