Date: 29 Jul 1999 11:27:16 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance Message-ID: <xzp3dy74xhn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 -0700" References: <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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
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