From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 29 2:28:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88440155AE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 02:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA17002; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:27:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance References: <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 29 Jul 1999 11:27:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > The CVS metadata was removed, reducing the inode count per port significantly. > This results in faster extraction time and hence "faster" downloads, assuming > that extraction time is the bottleneck (which it is for all but the 28K and > below downloaders). How about distributing an mtree file with the ports tarball, and applying that (mtree -deU -f BSD.ports.dist -p /usr) before unpacking the actual files? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message