Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dennis Berger wrote: Hi, today I installed the latest freebsd-stable-4.4-20011001 snapshot from stable.freebsd.org. But while extracting the portsdir I was surprised that there was no speed up. I checked the newfsversion shipped with the snapshot installdisk and realize that this is an old newfs version that does not create a filesystem with the new dirpref code. Did somebody forgot to implement it into this newfs version ? or to copy it over the old one The dirpref change never changed how newfs works, just how directories are located on the disk. Would the dirpref change even speed up an extract operation? Quite likely not. It might speed reading the directories once written. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: dirprefcode on snapshot mfsroot
Then tell me why the author of dirpref code tested his code with tar -xzf port.tgz refrer http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html Tom wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dennis Berger wrote: Hi, today I installed the latest freebsd-stable-4.4-20011001 snapshot from stable.freebsd.org. But while extracting the portsdir I was surprised that there was no speed up. I checked the newfsversion shipped with the snapshot installdisk and realize that this is an old newfs version that does not create a filesystem with the new dirpref code. Did somebody forgot to implement it into this newfs version ? or to copy it over the old one The dirpref change never changed how newfs works, just how directories are located on the disk. Would the dirpref change even speed up an extract operation? Quite likely not. It might speed reading the directories once written. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
