Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:38:15 +0100 From: Tom Bowyer <tab1@clara.co.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Message-ID: <E15pEJx-0005CT-00@oracle.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <20010928142611.A15946@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010928232009.A29187@libero.sunshine.ale> <20010928142611.A15946@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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? thanks, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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