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Re: groan: installation
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Nic Ferrier <nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>, Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>, <tromey at redhat dot com>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 19:49:56 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: groan: installation
On 3 Nov 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I get the same thing but also with the install.sh calls. In my case
> the installation is copying a file from one filesystem to another so
> the disc driver is getting involved there, I guess that's why it's
> slow.
On what OS? The Linux kernel delays writing metadata unless you mount
with the `sync' option. Windows OTOH is horribly slow at creat/unlink
calls (or whatever they are called in win32).
Jeff