Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:11:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), mike@smith.net.au, joelh@gnu.org, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809162211.PAA00672@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:53:41 -0000." <199809162153.OAA28773@usr04.primenet.com>
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> > >Yay, even less locality of reference. You were paying attention to the > > >thread on inode allocation policies that went past just recently? > > > > No, I don't recall so, it must have been on a list I'm not on. > > This refers to Mike's posting about how a depth-first created ports > tree doesn't perform very well. > > Most of the participants believed that the problem was the depth > first creation, not the FFS allocation policy (ie: pilot error). "Most of the participants" being Terry. Joseph Koshy suggested that Ganger's CFFS work was relevant (it is, but its on-disk format is incompatible), and Kirk concluded that it was probably time for some more work in that direction. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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