Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 08:24:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> To: admin@rshb.com.ru Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Message-ID: <20010930152404.581A8133C1@netcom1.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <3BB72F99.4090405@rshb.com.ru> (admin@rshb.com.ru) References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010930125511.B9899133B4@netcom1.netcom.com> <3BB72F99.4090405@rshb.com.ru>
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Um - what about my question? Is the newfs necessary? Repartitioning, backup, and restore also require a backup medium, etc. - Mike H. Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:43:37 +0700 From: "Evgueni V. Gavrilov" <admin@rshb.com.ru> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010918 X-Accept-Language: ru, en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-ID: <freebsd-stable.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/>; (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-stable> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-stable> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Harding wrote: >Can some of this benefit be realized w/o the newfs? If I have a few >directories like /usr/src, squid cache, etc, if I tar them up and then >untar them, will they get the goods, or is the newfs absolutely >necessary? I have a number of systems that have only one disk, and no >4.4-STABLE install CD, so obviously the newfs option with 4.4-STABLE >is a little awkward... > no CD required. floppies would be enough. I would offer you my own floppies with 29-Sep-2001-STABLE but I did them very personalized (such as i686_cpu only, having no several SCSI-drivers, no RAID at all etc.). -- VAMPIRO-RIPN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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