Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:56:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> To: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new filesystem improvements in 6.0-RELEASE, require newfs? Message-ID: <20051104165646.GB15136@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <436B915A.2070805@wmptl.com> References: <436B915A.2070805@wmptl.com>
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On 2005-11-04 11:50, Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> wrote: > Most notably amongst the improvements/additions to 6.0-RELEASE, > are those in the filesystem area. In performing a system > upgrade, does one need to newfs/format a given partition with a > new file system to make use of these optimizations, or is the > bonus simply in the kernel/filesystem support and sticking with > the current UFS2 partition (5.3-RELEASE/amd64) will step-up to it? The VFS optimizations and improvements in the SMP & locking don't really depend on having a particular file system type, AFAIK, so you shouldn't need to newfs for the performance gains they implement.
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