From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 10:43:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C5137B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dwcjr (unknown [66.64.12.254]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E563410F42C; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:43:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <01f701c157fc$61626ce0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Chris Johnson" Cc: "stable" References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011002212002.4034283f.steveo@eircom.net> <20011002214353.A653@student.uu.se> <20011018083713.A20403@polands.org> <20011018144850.A1943@shikima.mine.nu> <20011018105736.A43973@leviathan.inethouston.net> <01c101c157f9$87868da0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> <20011018133100.A4472@palomine.net> <01d101c157fb$1fab1c80$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> <20011018134140.A4720@palomine.net> Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:43:21 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:34:22PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > And that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out. Did I build my kernel > with then capability and then newfs my drive, or did I newfs my drive before > this capability. I can't remember. So once > again.......................Does anyone know how to check to see if a slice > is utilizing this feature or has it enabled or whatever term you would like > to use. Please don't respond with meaningless spam if you dont' know how to > check because that's all I am looking for. It's not meaningless spam. You are just failing to understand what people are trying to tell you. You don't have to newfs a file system after the code was added for that filesystem to be dirpref "enabled." If your kernel has the code in it, then all of your UFS file systems, even if you newfs-ed them years ago, are dirpref-enabled. Perhaps you should actually read the answers you've been given, instead of dismissing them as "meaningless spam." ------- If I had received an email like that previously I would not have dismissed it. Most everyone I have talked to is under the impression that you have to newfs a drive with the kernel to enable dirpref, you are the only one I have talked to who doesn't share this view. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message