Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:29:24 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. Message-ID: <20030123142924.A61481@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301231424040.72702-100000@root.org>; from nate@root.org on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:24:58PM -0800 References: <20030123134448.A57729@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301231424040.72702-100000@root.org>
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* De: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is > > one of the crunched programs, I realised that I really needed to make > > newfs(8) use libufs. To show off that it *can* help us reduce space, > > a good bit in some cases. > > Good to see this. Does libufs do an fsync() in bwrite() or do you need to > do that manually in place of the previous calls to wtfsflush()? It doesn't. Do you think it should? I'd rather do that than litter the newfs code. Thanx, juli. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet. OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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