Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:26:43 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, Daniel Hawton <irc@cooltime.simplenet.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809131826.UAA06475@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:17:17 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980913101538.21866A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> > Over fast local links, the speed of your disk often affects the speed > > of the install more than network issues. > > If 200 KB/s is too much for your disks, it is time to join the late > '80s and get new disks. Without softupdates creating and removing a lot of files (and the former is what happens during an install) on filesystems mounted with standard options takes a lot of time as the meta-data operations are done synchronous. That's the limiting factor I noticed for example when I checkout out the ports collections/the OS source or removed a huge directory tree. To avoid this one can choose between mounting a filesystem asynchrous (even meta-data gets buffered and written later with the - hopefully well known - risks) and softupdates (as far as I know still alpha). Or one finds a harddisk which is very fast at seeking. A solid state disk will do but I'd prefer buying a car instead and wait a few minutes for the installation to finish. ;-) Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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