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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Paul Allenby <pallenby@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: softupdates
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On Sat, 16 May 1998, Paul Allenby wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Since Luoqi Chen's last fix of softupdates, I've made world 3 times
> without a hickup.
> 
> I've seen a couple of warnings:
> 
> 		setup_allocindir_phase2: need bmap, blk -12
> 
> but no panics.

We have a delayed-binding-of-block-addresses enhancement in FreeBSD that
Lite2 doesn't have.  Luoqi wanted to make sure that the patch to
softupdates correctly handled this.

> It has speeded up make world times on my P100 machine from 5hrs and 30
> min to 3 hrs and 10 mins; the previous times with disks mounted async.
> This is with devfs and the slice code enabled. 

Thanks,


Mike


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