Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 01:26:13 +0200 From: Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot Message-ID: <3BB8FB95.CFB9A392@nipsi.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110011559150.72243-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
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Then tell me why the author of dirpref code tested his code with "tar -xzf port.tgz" refrer http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html Tom wrote: > 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
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