From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 13 15:20:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00408 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:20:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00382 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02923 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd002917; Fri Feb 13 15:11:41 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:07:52 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Working (apparently) soft-update code available. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG look in: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/softupdates4.tgz first extract the README and read it before extracting everything. this should patch cleanly against last night's -current. try a make world before and after.. particularly, make /var/tmp and/or /usr/obj use softupdates. for a real laugh, try timing deletion of a large directory hierarchy.. enjoy.. courtesy of: Kirk Mckusick John Dyson, Whistle Communications. (Julian Terry and Archie) this at least should put an end to the "ext2fs is faster" arguments, even if they are based on apple/oranges comparisons. :-) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message