Re: EXT MAIL : Re: USB install is slow

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 04:57:00PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 03:52:15PM +0000, Derrick Lobo wrote:
> > I ended just untaring the sets and running etcupdate as that was much
> > quicker
> 
> Huh? If that was much quicker (you were running the same kernel, from the
> install image?) - where did the upgrade spend all the additional time?
> Extracting sets should be the major part, plus a bit of "postinstall" where
> it hashes all the (new with -10) SSL certificates (and the script doing so
> is suboptimal). Neither should take even close to 10 minutes on amd64 hardware
> from the last 10 years or so.

A shot in the dark: there is a problem report on pkgsrc mailing list
linked with tar and extended attributes.

In the 10.* series, extended attributes have been added to libc (man 3
acl).

Furthermore, modifications have been made, concerning extended
attributes, to UFS (with a problem of incompatibility).

Possible culprit: tar and extended attributes (libc, kernel,
filesystem), involving acrobatics costing a lot of time.
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