From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 4 13:16:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AC237B40A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f94KFVP64104; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:15:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f94KGlG39401; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:16:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:16:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Tom Bowyer Cc: Kris Kennaway , Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011004161600.B37821-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 4 Oct 2001, Tom Bowyer wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001 10:26 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:20:09PM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:12:46PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Just a note to those who have updated to 4.4-STABLE that it's well > > > > worth doing a backup + newfs + restore on all your UFS volumes. The > > > > > > does the "newfs" step is necessary or just recommended for optimum > > > performance gain ? > > > > Well, you need to wipe the disk so that when you restore it can lay > > things out optimally from the start. > > > > Kris > > My approach to this would be to use the two install floppies to do the newfs > and restore. Am I right in thinking that the floppies I use would have to > have been made after the dirpref code went in to stable? > > If so can I download a set of floppies made from the stable source or can I > build my own? You can download -STABLE snapshot foppies from ftp://stable.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots. The RELNOTES from today's SNAP indicates the dirperf code is in there. Joe > > thanks, > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message