From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 15: 0:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uunet.ca (mail2.uunet.ca [142.77.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4341C37BF05; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail2.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <599832-1885>; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:54:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:59:23 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: spork Cc: Dominik Brettnacher , "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" , jabley@patho.gen.nz, dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I dislike sending a "me too" along the list, however this is something that has bothered me for along time. Installations from CD crawl to about a 24KB throughput, untarring it is just as horrible, not to meantion using cvsup with a blank /usr/ports! It would be much easier if there were not tens of thousands of little files, but that's just my opinion. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, spork wrote: : Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:52:33 -0500 : From: spork : To: Dominik Brettnacher : Cc: "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" , jabley@patho.gen.nz, : dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, : lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, : brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG : Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) : : : On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dominik Brettnacher wrote: : : > Why do you want to use large flat files instead of a file system? The : > Ports Collection also works fine with lots of little files. I think little : > files are easier to maintain. : : Ever unpack ports? It takes forever on the fastest machines. The last : install I did, I think it took longer to install ports than the rest of : the OS... : : Charles : : > -- : > Dominik - http://www.brettnacher.org/users/dominik/ : > : > : > : > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message : > : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message