From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 1 16:25:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nipsi.de (dsl-213-023-032-113.arcor-ip.net [213.23.32.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5CFA37B40D for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 35359 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2001 23:23:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nipsi.de) (172.16.1.101) by nipsi with SMTP; 1 Oct 2001 23:23:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3BB8FB95.CFB9A392@nipsi.de> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 01:26:13 +0200 From: Dennis Berger Organization: Nipsi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Then tell me why the author of dirpref code tested his code with "tar -xzf port.tgz" refrer http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html Tom wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dennis Berger wrote: > > > Hi, > > today I installed the latest freebsd-stable-4.4-20011001 snapshot from > > stable.freebsd.org. But while extracting the portsdir I was surprised > > that there was no speed up. I checked the newfsversion shipped with the > > snapshot installdisk and realize that this is an old newfs version that > > does not create a filesystem with the new dirpref code. Did somebody > > forgot to implement it into this newfs version ? or to copy it over the > > old one.... > > The dirpref change never changed how newfs works, just how directories > are located on the disk. Would the dirpref change even speed up an > extract operation? Quite likely not. It might speed reading the > directories once written. > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message