Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:41:07 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockf in installworld -- not a good idea Message-ID: <200610021441.08126.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060929142405.GA5875@rambler-co.ru> References: <20060929141709.E70454@fledge.watson.org> <2fd864e0609290707t7e7d6e17g61a09ff5aa10ff3f@mail.gmail.com> <20060929142405.GA5875@rambler-co.ru>
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On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:07:19AM -0500, Astrodog wrote: > > Personally, I find it much, much more important to be able to do an > > installworld from a "real" single user mode via NFS, than it is to support > > -j. I don't think I've ever had a circumstance where I really needed make > > installworld to finish quickly. > > > This doesn't mean it's unused. For example, our release engineers > build releases on fast SMP machines, and "make release" can complete > faster with -j on real SMP hardware. This is btw how this bug was > found in the first place. I'd say it's a bug in src/release/Makefile. :) It should use WORLD_FLAGS with buildworld and not with installworld. -- John Baldwin
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