Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:51:05 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: [csapuntz@tma-1.lcs.mit.edu: Soft updates beta available on OpenBSD] Message-ID: <19971218185105.19512@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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-----Forwarded message from Constantine Sapuntzakis <csapuntz@tma-1.lcs.mit.edu>----- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:21:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712170321.WAA09714@tma-1.lcs.mit.edu> From: Constantine Sapuntzakis <csapuntz@tma-1.lcs.mit.edu> To: announce@openbsd.org Subject: Soft updates beta available on OpenBSD Sender: announce-request@openbsd.org If you're running OpenBSD-current (i.e. past 2.2), then you can take advantage of soft updates, an enhancement to the built-in FFS that can speed up directory operations significantly. The enhancement was coded by M. Kirk McKusick and a fifteen minute port to OpenBSD was done by me. I (csapuntz@mit.edu) am entirely responsible for supporting the OpenBSD beta and release of this enhancement. Please do not bother Kirk with bug reports, etc. The soft updates code is currently BETA software. This means that you could potentially LOSE data if you use this enhancement. This being said, I have been running soft updates for several months and it has never garbled a file or directory. The code for the soft updates enhancement goes into the kernel, so it will require a kernel recompile to enable the enhancement. The code for the soft updates enhancement is under a special license and as such, is not distributed with -current. Please make sure to read and agree with the terms of the license (which appears at the top of source files). To find out more, go to http://www.openbsd.org/softupdate.html. -Costa csapuntz@mit.edu -----End of forwarded message-----
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