From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 20:40:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDF016A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (gate.funkthat.com [69.17.45.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5140243D45 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j71KeciD029412; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j71KecFX029411; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:40:38 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: diz@linuxpowered.com Message-ID: <20050801204038.GW62369@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: diz@linuxpowered.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <64511.68.95.232.238.1122917387.squirrel@68.95.232.238> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64511.68.95.232.238.1122917387.squirrel@68.95.232.238> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] rc.d cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:40:39 -0000 diz@linuxpowered.com wrote this message on Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:29 -0500: > This has the result of reducing the size of the shell code, and reducing Unless you cross a fs frag (usually 1024 bytes), i.e. reduce the scripts by an average of 512bytes *per* script, you will see no disk space savings from these changes... considering that on my 5.4-R system over half (73 of 124) are under a frag in size, it isn't that much... One thing that would be really useful for rc.d system is a way to cache the ordering on boot... On a slow system like a 200mhz arm, the rc ordering can take a long while.... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."