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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:41:12 -0400
From:      Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, Eirik =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available
Message-ID:  <200507152241.19263.mistry.7@osu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200507152253.26648@harrymail>
References:  <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> <635F9EBB-6C5E-4437-ABDE-99D0540BC774@anduin.net> <200507152253.26648@harrymail>

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On Friday 15 July 2005 04:53 pm, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 22:12 CEST schrieb Eirik =D8verby:
> > On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier:
> > >> And, for "the stupid question of the day" ... how long before
> > >> 5.x is no
> > >> longer supported?  I'm just about to deploy a new server, and
> > >> was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just
> > >> skipping 5.x altogether?  Or are there such drastic changes in
> > >> 6.x that doing so at
> > >> this time wouldn't be prudent?
> > >
> > > To post my opinion to the last part of the question: I'm also
> > > deploying new
> > > servers and I'll take RELENG_6 since there are so many
> > > improovements (nullfs in jails etc.) and 6-current has been
> > > pretty stable for me on my
> >
> > Hoi,
> > what's changed wrt jails? And nullfs? I haven't been following
> > the "news" as closely as I perhaps should, but I feel that the
> > jail functionality doesn't get half as much attention in release
> > notes as it should... Porting my jail-related tools to 5.x from
> > 4.x was painful, but enjoyable when I was done. How does 6.x
> > look?
>
> I'm not the developer guy so I can't tell you anything
> authoritative but I know that there has been an awful perfomance
> degradation when mounting nullfs-filesystems into a jail under
> RELENG_5, espacially noticable with apache! I just know that Jeff
> Roberson committed incredible lots of vm/vfs changes, perhaps this
> also solved the md performance problem, at least the nullfs problem
> was solved!
>
The nullfs performace issue has been fixed.

=2D-=20
Anish Mistry

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