I don't know waht really happened, but the originally quoted numbers
sound fishy to me. There may well be some other problem.
I ran two tests on my rather modest machine (P166, 64mb, UW Scsi
Drives, 3.3-Stable). I have soft updates turned on.
(correctly, I might add :-)
Unpacking the ports file from a tarball: 6:30
Creating a ports dir tarfile: 4:30
The filesystems in question were about 800 megs, created with default
settings. I'd say thats pretty acceptable performance.
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