From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 27 13:19:57 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B00C37B401; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C02A43E9C; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARLJj8M080853; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:19:45 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id gARLJjYc080852; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:19:45 GMT Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARLFgre048973; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:15:42 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Message-Id: <200211272115.gARLFgre048973@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1 Makefile In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:49:51 +0100." <21295.1038430191@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:15:42 +0000 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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