From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 28 14:30:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2DBF37B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31726 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Sep 2001 21:30:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:30:16 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Alessandro de Manzano , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Message-ID: <20010928143016.H29974@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010928232009.A29187@libero.sunshine.ale> <20010928142611.A15946@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010928142611.A15946@xor.obsecurity.org>; from "kris@obsecurity.org" on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at = 02:26:11PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:12:46PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >=20 > > > 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 > >=20 > > does the "newfs" step is necessary or just recommended for optimum > > performance gain ? >=20 > Well, you need to wipe the disk so that when you restore it can lay > things out optimally from the start. But turning on soft-updates should be sufficient to get these performance= =20 boosts from this point on, correct? -sc --=20 Sean Chittenden --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAju06+cACgkQn09c7x7d+q3h6gCgqQWAAbHl8UaIx8a66fyi0uem dEgAoLjTlbwESWageOShFtWEKL5dYkdn =UFNH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message