Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:52:23 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: cmetz@inner.net (Craig Metz), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Random FreeBSD things Message-ID: <14637.825033143@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:03:24 PST." <199602222303.PAA04326@ref.tfs.com>
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> > Ok, so I boot the 2.2 snapshot floppies. The menu program doesn't work, He didn't give me much to go on, so I sort of consigned this trouble report to the bit bucket (note to others: If you don't want this to happen, don't supply content-free information like "It didn't work" :-) > > 3. Something's fubar with the buffercache. Not caching the floppy > > neither do I, it shouldn't be accessing the floppy at all unless you said to > install off floppy.... after booting you can usually remove it.. This has absolutely nothing to do with the buffer cache, it's the overhead in uncompressing the binary each time (it's gzip'd). Some other work that's been going on may render the need to gzip the sysinstall crunchball (it's not just a simple exec) unnecessary, which will make things considerably faster here. I agree that it's a pain, but it's been unavoidable up to now (you try and fit 800K worth of executable into 400K worth of space sometime.. :-) Jordan
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