Make hardlinking kernel-devel optional

Trever L. Adams tadams-lists at myrealbox.com
Wed Feb 1 16:45:15 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:05 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:57:37AM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
>  > This is not entirely true. I have a K6-2 500 with 256 M of memory. It
>  > takes FOREVER to install or remove a kernel when there are only 1 or 2
>  > installed. It is about the only thing that takes forever.
> 
> Removing hardlink will speed up installation/removal of 'kernel-devel',
> not 'kernel'. That's not going to get any faster, just due to the
> amount of data that has to be written.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

Well, ps xa says that it is spending ALL of its time in hardlinking.

However, as you say...

Trever
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