Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:01:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110011559150.72243-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <3BB8F44E.EED490FD@nipsi.de>
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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
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