Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:33:54 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel? Message-ID: <20000711213354.R4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:25:43AM %2B1000 References: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au>
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:25:43AM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > 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. To answer this FAQ: Installs (or at least the ports tree) are done mounted async, so any performance gain from softupdates is already obtained by mounting async. This has been the default for a long time. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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