From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 12 7:22:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3069837BF86 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661CDE8D3 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:22:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA86708; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:22:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14700.32527.166082.897464@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:22:07 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel? In-Reply-To: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "GB" == Gregory Bond writes: GB> Doing installs from CD is really slow, especially the ports GB> collection (which creates thousands of tiny files). I've often GB> thought that softupdates would make the install much faster, but I think it might make sense to mount the file systems async during installs. If it crashes, well, you're just gonna have to re-run the install anyhow. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message