On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 11:52, UNIX admin wrote: > > That's not how I understood it. I thought the idea > > was that the package > > would be stored as a single file in datastream format > > rather than unpacked > > in filesystem format. Which would cut down a lot of > > the small I/O operations that are currently necessary. > > Aha! OK, that would work. Although I always do a > `pkgtrans -s ...` of all the packages I make, I didn't > realize that they actually install faster because of that.
Normally, they wouldn't. If you supply a datastream, it has to unpack it temporarily. The gain is in the convenience of just grabbing the single file. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
