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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:33:54 -0400
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel?
Message-ID:  <20000711213354.R4034@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:25:43AM %2B1000
References:  <200007120125.LAA12321@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:25:43AM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote:
> Doing installs from CD is really slow, especially the ports collection (which 
> creates thousands of tiny files).  I've often thought that softupdates would 
> make the install much faster, but of course the licencing issues made that 
> impossible.

To answer this FAQ:

	Installs (or at least the ports tree) are done mounted async, so
any performance gain from softupdates is already obtained by mounting async.

This has been the default for a long time.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES
e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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