From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 18:33:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415B437BA52 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D7EC71C66; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:33:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:33:54 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Gregory Bond Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel? Message-ID: <20000711213354.R4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:25:43AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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