[install-discuss] Musings on installing B72 x86

[Roland Mainz]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> > Jürgen Keil wrote:
> >> Bart wrote:
[snip]
> >    My hsfs enhancements for Live Media fix this shortcoming of hsfs.
> >    It issues whole page reads where there is no interleaving and does
> >    re-ordering. So it can coalesce multiple pages into a single larger
> >    read.
> >
> >    I sent out the changes for review on caiman-discuss sometime back.
> >    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6588256
> >
> > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site//binfiles/hsfswebrev/index.htm
> >
> 
>    Forgot to mention that the overall install time also depends on how
>    fast the rest of the system is: I/O bus, disk, processor etc. On laptops
>    with slower disk, cpu etc. the pkgadds and whole bunches of postinstall,
>    preinstall, class-action and other scripts, bunzip2 take time so the
>    CDROM spins down. The install in that case will be unable to sustain
>    an 8MB/sec throughput regardless of filesystem enhancements.

Is there no way to prevent the CDROM from spinning down ?

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Bye,
Roland

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