From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 18:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF11E37BA3D for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA61381 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:25:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12321; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:25:44 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:25:43 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doing installs from CD is really slow, especially the ports collection (which creates thousands of tiny files). I've often thought that softupdates would make the install much faster, but of course the licencing issues made that impossible. But now that the licencing has changed, can we put softupdates into the install kernel (and the consequent changes to sysinstall etc)? This would have the positive side-effect of making disk writes faster for those many users who never configure new kernels, or just use variants of the GENERIC config, thus closing the gap in "out of the box" disk performance with other, less cautious, operating systems. The downside is probably more memory needed to do the install.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message