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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:22:57 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        "Rasputin" <rasputin@submonkey.net>, "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost
Message-ID:  <01c101c157f9$87868da0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net>
References:  <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net> <20011002214353.A653@student.uu.se> <20011018083713.A20403@polands.org> <20011018144850.A1943@shikima.mine.nu> <20011018105736.A43973@leviathan.inethouston.net> <p05101005b7f4bb89498e@[128.113.24.47]>

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> Dirpref is not something which is "enabled" or "disabled", not in
> the same sense as softupdates is "enabled".
>
> Dirpref is a smarter layout of information in a partition.  You
> need a version of the system which knows HOW to do that smarter
> layout, and then you just rebuild the partition.  There is no
> switch to turn on and off.
>
I'm not looking to turn if off or on, just to see whether a file system of
mine has that capability in it or if I need to newfs it.



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