Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:49:51 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1 Makefile Message-ID: <21295.1038430191@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:18:15 EST." <XFMail.20021127151815.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.20021127151815.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: > >On 27-Nov-2002 John Baldwin wrote: >> jhb 2002/11/27 12:13:15 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/alpha/boot1 Makefile >> Log: >> Enable UFS2 support in boot1. Just as with sparc64 the same boot1 works >> great with both UFS1 and UFS2 filesystems. >> >> Approved by: re > >I did two test installs on my test Alpha this morning, one with all UFS1 >and one with all UFS2 with this patch and both installed ok and booted. >FWIW, newfs with UFS2 is a _lot_ faster, esp. on large filesystems. The reason newfs is faster is that it doesn't spend time initializing the inodes. With softupdates we know exactly which inodes are there so there is no need to hint fsck about it by zeroing out all potential inodes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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