>[email protected] wrote:
>>> You're claiming you can install "entire" using pkg in 7 minutes, that, I
>>> think requires more explanation. (E.g, SXCE is 2.6GB *compressed*,
>>> that takes 3.5 minutes *alone* to download and running pk7zip takes
>>> many more than 7 minutes.)
>>
>> No. I said that I can install entire, SUNWcs & SUNWcsd, and
>> babel_install in under 7 minutes using pkg(5) on the latest OpenSolaris
>> build.
>
>And perhaps the disagreement with Casper here is because while it's
>obvious to you that "entire" is simply a list of package versions,
>to those not familiar with IPS, it sounds like you're claiming to
>install the entire WOS image, which it absolutely isn't doing.
Ah, right. Thanks for explaining that. "entire" sounds to me as
"download and install the whole enchilada"
There were some other observation when I installed "all of SXCE"; e.g.,
"ZFS" will not always write out the contents file when it is updated
continuously (the old commands didn't use fsync()) but on smaller systems
(1GB), zfs performs a lot more I/O on an old v210 w/ 1GB:
1h37m 13:56:25 - 15:33:18 (ufs) read 313M write 76G
2h28m 17:12:03 - 19:40:23 (zfs) read 45G write 75G
Most of the "75" GB was writing the contents file; now it's:
new:
0h55m 12:02:04 - 12:57:04 (ufs) read 290M write 10G
0h54m 11:26:38 - 12:20:31 (zfs) read 2248M write 11G
and ufs/zfs are then about equivalent when installing (most of the
work is pk7zip and cpio). BTW, this is ALL of SXCE, including *ALL*
locales.
>To compare to SXCE install times, "redistributable" would be closer,
>but you're still missing a couple hundred megs of StarOffice, CDE,
>and other bits in SXCE but not IPS.
So perhaps we should benchmark that.
Casper
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