On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:57:37AM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:21 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:44:17PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I't like to request to make the hardlink stage kernel-devel does on every > > > install optional. It takes a damn lot of time on my not-too-fast machines, > > > I do not exactly care about the saved disk space, and given the rate of > > > kernel changes in rawhide there are a lot of wasted CPU cycles there. > > > > only if you have a huge number of kernels installed, which shouldn't be the case. > > This is not entirely true. I have a K6-2 500 with 256 M of memory. It > takes FOREVER to install or remove a kernel when there are only 1 or 2 > installed. It is about the only thing that takes forever. Removing hardlink will speed up installation/removal of 'kernel-devel', not 'kernel'. That's not going to get any faster, just due to the amount of data that has to be written. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
