From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 30 7:43:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rshb.com.ru (rshb.com.ru [195.162.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BBE37B409 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rshb.com.ru (vampiro.rsb.local [192.168.1.111]) by rshb.com.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8UEhCx01736 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:43:12 +0700 (OMSST) (envelope-from admin@rshb.com.ru) Message-ID: <3BB72F99.4090405@rshb.com.ru> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:43:37 +0700 From: "Evgueni V. Gavrilov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010918 X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010930125511.B9899133B4@netcom1.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Harding wrote: >Can some of this benefit be realized w/o the newfs? If I have a few >directories like /usr/src, squid cache, etc, if I tar them up and then >untar them, will they get the goods, or is the newfs absolutely >necessary? I have a number of systems that have only one disk, and no >4.4-STABLE install CD, so obviously the newfs option with 4.4-STABLE >is a little awkward... > no CD required. floppies would be enough. I would offer you my own floppies with 29-Sep-2001-STABLE but I did them very personalized (such as i686_cpu only, having no several SCSI-drivers, no RAID at all etc.). -- VAMPIRO-RIPN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message