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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:24:06 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, "Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> \"'current@freebsd.org'\"" <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost
Message-ID:  <3ADF1F36.44A3AA54@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200104161634.f3GGYZs11356@aslan.scsiguy.com> <200104162146.f3GLkGT82369@earth.backplane.com> <3ADBF9FA.9D1C4DB4@DougBarton.net> <20010417011335.V976@fw.wintelcom.net> <3ADC0221.32127C39@DougBarton.net> <3ADEDE2F.573C20A1@FreeBSD.org> <200104191632.f3JGWVG54689@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon wrote:

> :
> :What do you think about attached patch?
> :
> :-Maxim
>
>     mmm.. I think it would just confuse the issue and prevent us from
>     being able to change the kernel default trivially.  99.5% of the
>     FreeBSD boxes out there are just going to want it to be on by default.

Point taken and issues fixed, thank you!

>     We could provide a commented-out rc.conf variable and support in rc
>     to allow the sysadmin to set it, but we should not provide a default
>     in the rc system or try to create yet another configuration file.  The
>     issue doesn't require that level of sophistication.

But we already have sysctl.conf and appropriate rc.sysctl, haven't we? What's
wrong with putting some useful payload into it?

-Maxim


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