From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 22:30:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA01552 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 22:30:23 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA01544 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 22:30:09 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA19077; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:28:23 +1000 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:28:23 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503160628.QAA19077@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bakul@netcom.com, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I think the gzip image activator already does a better job than this. >It does? Then why are people saying that running >compressed binaries are not shared? >> Neither does a very good job with the following issues: >> >> - caching. Everything should probably be cached for a while >> (days?) if there is enough space. >My scheme handles it (read the more detailed description in >my email, just below the section you quoted). OK, I was wrong. The gzip image activator actually only handles one case well - when you have more memory than disk. Expanding the image on disk is very unattractive when the disk is a 1.2MB boot floppy. Bruce