Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:16:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Tom Bowyer <tab1@clara.co.uk> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Message-ID: <20011004161600.B37821-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <E15pEJx-0005CT-00@oracle.clara.net>
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Tom Bowyer wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001 10:26 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:20:09PM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:12:46PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Just a note to those who have updated to 4.4-STABLE that it's well > > > > worth doing a backup + newfs + restore on all your UFS volumes. The > > > > > > does the "newfs" step is necessary or just recommended for optimum > > > performance gain ? > > > > Well, you need to wipe the disk so that when you restore it can lay > > things out optimally from the start. > > > > Kris > > My approach to this would be to use the two install floppies to do the newfs > and restore. Am I right in thinking that the floppies I use would have to > have been made after the dirpref code went in to stable? > > If so can I download a set of floppies made from the stable source or can I > build my own? You can download -STABLE snapshot foppies from ftp://stable.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots. The RELNOTES from today's SNAP indicates the dirperf code is in there. Joe > > thanks, > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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