Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:15:42 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1 Makefile Message-ID: <200211272115.gARLFgre048973@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:49:51 %2B0100." <21295.1038430191@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >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. Hmmm. Sounds nifty. Can this optimization be backported to UFS1? M -- Mark Murray Beware! I'm umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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