Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:21:16PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, David Young wrote:
> > > * Add "-p pax" flag, to create all device nodes at once using pax,
> > >   instead of one by one using mknod.  This is much faster (speed
> > >   increases of up to 20 times have been observed, but 3 to 5 times is
> > >   more common).
> > 
> > This is great!  I cannot count how many times I've drummed my fingers
> > waiting for MAKEDEV to create /dev on a slow SBC.  I must buy you a
> > beer sometime.
> 
> It works only if pax supports the "-M" option, to read an mtree spec.
> The crunchgen'd pax in typical install ramdisks does not support that
> option.  So, depending on where and when you run MAKEDEV, you might
> not benefit.

sysinst could arrange to run makedev chroot'ed into the target filestem.
Then it would run in installed pax.

        David

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