From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 19 10:40: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAB937B423; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3JHdw255890; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104191739.f3JHdw255890@earth.backplane.com> To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Doug Barton , "Alfred Perlstein \"'current@freebsd.org'\"" Subject: Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost 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> <3ADF1F36.44A3AA54@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :But we already have sysctl.conf and appropriate rc.sysctl, haven't we? What's :wrong with putting some useful payload into it? : :-Maxim Let me explain a little more. If it's commented out, it's fine. But if you are actually setting a value in there you will override whatever is set in the kernel. When people install new systems they do not usually override their /etc/ files, so an uncommented value will set that default in stone and prevent us from being able to change it with a new kernel rev. This being a *kernel* specific feature, we need to have control over the default in the kernel itself. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message