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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:10:04 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports install speed 
Message-ID:  <199802221910.LAA07884@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:31:14 PST." <27249.888168674@time.cdrom.com> 

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> > Couldn't that be accelerated somehow, by mounting async, probably?
> 
> It's already mounted async.  I'm afraid there's not much to be
> done about it.

People should bear in mind that the 9K/sec is an *input* data rate.  
The ports tree compressess something fearful, and the output data rate 
is much less shabby than you might think.

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