From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 1 16: 1:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBB637B407 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 15oC3n-000D5O-00; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:01:15 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:01:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca To: Dennis Berger Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot In-Reply-To: <3BB8F44E.EED490FD@nipsi.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dennis Berger wrote: > Hi, > today I installed the latest freebsd-stable-4.4-20011001 snapshot from > stable.freebsd.org. But while extracting the portsdir I was surprised > that there was no speed up. I checked the newfsversion shipped with the > snapshot installdisk and realize that this is an old newfs version that > does not create a filesystem with the new dirpref code. Did somebody > forgot to implement it into this newfs version ? or to copy it over the > old one.... The dirpref change never changed how newfs works, just how directories are located on the disk. Would the dirpref change even speed up an extract operation? Quite likely not. It might speed reading the directories once written. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message