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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:49:11 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Slow directory access with lots of files
Message-ID:  <20050117224911.GA31567@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050117213425.595e6856.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
References:  <41EC0D80.8090403@totem.is-a-geek.com> <20050117191343.GA79136@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050117213425.595e6856.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:25PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:43 -0800
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> > Do you have UFS_DIRHASH in your kernel?  If you don't, or if you added
> > it after the disk was already populated, you'll see the benefits if
> > you dump, wipe and restore the disk.
>=20
> Could you elaborate on that? My impression has always been that dirhash
> does all its magic in memory, without persistant data stored on disk.

No.  It's an optimized method for laying out the data on disk.  I
think you're confusing it with softupdates, but that still doesn't
work entirely that way.

Kris
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