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Date:      Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:41:25 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost 
Message-ID:  <200110021941.f92JfTZ04932@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:20:02 %2B0200." <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net> 

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In message <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net>, "Steve 
O'Hara-Smith" wr
ites:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:12:46 -0700
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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




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