[indiana-discuss] Reducing boot and shutdown time for Indiana

[Stephen Hahn]

* Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> [2007-09-25 17:33]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >* Danny <solaris-78 at mail.ru> [2007-09-25 05:48]:
> >  
> >>Has anyone this issue? I do not like to wait a few minutes each time
> >>while  "...updating /platform/i86pc/boot_archive...this may take a
> >>minute ..."
> >
> >  The boot archive is only rebuilt if a file critical to boot has been
> >  modified in some fashion.  The list of critical files is conservative,
> >  and I believe could be trimmed.  (Do you see this every
> >  shutdown/reboot?)
> >  
> I have not checked in Nevada, but when I was looking at this in S10U4, 
> I  noticed that update_archive was being called multiple times (3 at the 
> last count) during shutdown.  The list of files/directories that are 
> tracked have also grown.  I am not sure how much of this all contributes 
> to the delay up but that is something that might be worth investigating.

  3 times seems two too many.  Anyone care to investigate?

  - Stephen
  
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