From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 2 12:42:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDD337B407 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id MAA28392; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:42:22 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda28390; Tue Oct 2 12:42:07 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f92Jg7214698; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdj14696; Tue Oct 2 12:41:29 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f92JfTZ04932; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110021941.f92JfTZ04932@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdic4923; Tue Oct 2 12:41:25 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:20:02 +0200." <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:41:25 -0700 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 In message <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wr ites: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:12:46 -0700 > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > KK> Hi all, > KK> > KK> Just a note to those who have updated to 4.4-STABLE that it's well > KK> worth doing a backup + newfs + restore on all your UFS volumes. The > > CAVEAT: insert a tunefs -n enable between newfs and restore, without > it the performance improvement is rather less dramatic :) Newfs now supports -U which turns on the softupdates bit in the superblock. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message