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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:16:39 -0500
From:      Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
To:        "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lockf in installworld -- not a good idea
Message-ID:  <2fd864e0609290816v7692e678vcca8ff89d24bbdac@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060929.091414.74722768.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 9/29/06, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > For what its worth.... I'd go with just stopping support for -j in
> > installworld, even if things are CPU bound.
>
> installworld should *NEVER* be done -j.  Ever.  That wasn't part of
> the installworld bargin when it was started.  There's no point to it
> at all.  As such, any support to make it work should be removed with
> extreme prejustice.  Why on earth would you want to do installworld
> -j?


That's kinda my thought.

--- Harrison



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