From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 10:22:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FBC37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dwcjr (unknown [66.64.12.254]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A80B10F42C; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:22:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <01c101c157f9$87868da0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Rasputin" , "Garance A Drosihn" Cc: "Doug Poland" , 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> Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:22:57 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message