Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:58:55 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, gekk0@pop.netaddress.com Subject: Re: CVSup/Make World help Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0813105855-0b0Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980812170243.wwoods@cybcon.com>
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On Thu 13 Aug, William Woods wrote: > - > > > If you live in a country, where power-supply sometimes drops: leave out > > the -o asnyc bits...... > > > > I have herd about this, what exactly is async mount? It causes writes to the hard-disc to be 'clustered' and as the compile-process is _very_ I/O-dependend, makes it go faster. I don't think you'd see a big difference under normal circumstances - but while make world, your computer does nothing else and so it really pays. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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