From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 8 23:55:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6A714C1B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with ESMTP id IAA09310; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:53:52 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:53:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch In-Reply-To: <7125.936851836@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To me this very much sounds like feature creap. The less options, the better, no one is looking at them anyway. Who says you are doing a build on ufs anyway? It might be something for a FAQ though (if there is one) or for the handbook. Just my 0.01 BEF. Nick > > The following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile allows the > > specification of the variable FASTCLEAN, which instead of doing > > a recursive rm on CHROOTDIR, simply umounts/newfs/mounts. Of > > course, this is only useful if your CHROOTDIR location is a > > separate mount point (which mine is: /snap). > > No offense, but this is really pretty ugly for something that I'd > anticipate to be a *major* edge case. I've been building releases for > years, for example, and I've yet to build one on a filesystem all by > itself. I usually just cast around for some space on an existing > (shared) fs and go to it, and I suspect that many others are the same > way. :-) > > I'm not saying there shouldn't be a *hook* of some sort for doing > "fast cleans", but the patches as they stand add way too much of a > delta for only one very specific optimization. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message