From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 28 14:54:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A761937B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com ([64.228.80.123]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010928215444.UAZA4990.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@TMA-1.brad-x.com>; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:54:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.brad-x.com [127.0.0.1]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71167B142; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:55:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Laue To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost In-Reply-To: <20010928145040.A16450@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: 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 Ahh.. (Forwarding this to the list, since people may benefit) Would creating copies of directory trees, or passing them between partitions rebuild their structure in an optimized way, without clearing the filesystems? Brad // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:47:57PM -0400, Brad Laue wrote: > > Apologies; that was meant for the list. > > Well, no matter. To expand on my comment, because dirpref is an > improved way of laying directories out on disk, you'll get performance > benefit automatically for any new directories you create, you just > won't get nearly as much as if you start from a blank slate. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message