Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 13:30:58 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mladavac@metropolitan.at, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <19990531133058.A30436@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <3752EFC6.95357F1B@excite.com>; from Dean Lombardo on Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:23:34PM %2B0100 References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179631@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> <199905311410.HAA51369@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <3752EFC6.95357F1B@excite.com>
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On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:23:34PM +0100, Dean Lombardo wrote: > occupies at least 512 bytes on disk. So is 44Mb the _actual_ size of > the whole thing, as stored on disk, or just the sum of individual file > sizes? I would expect that Satoshi measured with du (or maybe df if he has a partition for the ports tree). In either case, the measurement is in allocated blocks of 512 bytes. > installing the ports. FreeBSD also seems a bit slow when dealing with > lots of small files. Either soft updates or async mounts should be used when initially installing the system. Probably not soft updates due to lcense issues. There are safty concerns with async mounts, but if you're doing a fresh install, you don't have precious data to worry about anyway, and if something goes wrong during the install, you're probably going to have to start over either way. Anyway, if I were installing a system, I would not install the ports tree during sysinstall. I would get the system up, and then install the ports tree while I can do other work on the system. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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