On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only >>> a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait >>> a Fedora 18 install takes. > > If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober > takes a while to construct grub.cfg: more than half a minute for my > three dozen partitions. This is new with grub2 instead of grub. > > Most of the rest is yum, in two parts. The first is verifying > that all the files named in all the packages actually did get installed. > The second is constructing the yum database, which uses symbolic links > in the filesystem. Look in /var/lib/yum/yumdb to see this monster. > You'll notice that the harddrive LED stays on the whole time! > Journalling all that is _expensive_. <rant> The yum "database" isn't really a database ... this kind of database design costs you that. There are lots of databases available no idea why yum had to invent its own non database and use it as a database. </rant> -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
