On 4/11/06, Peter Tribble <P.Tribble at herts.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:34, I suggested: > > - re-order package installation to install small packages first > > So I went and estimated how much difference this would make.
How about another (replacement or combinned) approach? Mount a tmpfs file system at /a/var/sadm/install (or /var/sadm?) before package installations start, then do something along the lines of: mkdir /a/var/sadm/install.new cd /a/var/sadm/install find . cpio -pd /a/var/sadm/install.new cd / umount /a/var/sadm/install rmdir /a/var/sadm/install mv /a/var/sadm/install.new /a/var/sadm/install Presumably this would make it so that the disk is not hit nearly as much. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
