Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:41:08 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Anatoliy Dmytriyev <tolid@plab.ku.dk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS_DIRHASH - your opinion Message-ID: <200110242041.f9OKfbP47523@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:33:55 BST." <20011024213355.A76424@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <20011024213355.A76424@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:32:10PM +0200, Anatoliy Dmytriyev wrote: > > I installed on my home box 4.4-RELEASE and found in the LINT new option > > UFS_DIRHASH. What do you think about this? > > Well, here we are using the code on out news server, cvsup server > and NFS server without any problems. Mind you, Ian Dowse who wrote > the dirhash code works here, so we may be biased ;-) > > > I know this is experimental code but have you experience with > > UFS_DIRHASH? And have I reasons include this option in my kernel? > > If you have directories which contains lots of files which are > accessed repeatedly then it may be a win for you. This seems like a useful feature. Should this be the default or is it risky as LINT suggests? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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