RE: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Barry Byrne
TECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthias > Trevarthan > Sent: 25 September 2002 15:00 > To: Barry Byrne; Lowell Gilbert > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency > > > Neat. Has anyone benchmarked this thing? Are there any reports > th

Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
Neat. Has anyone benchmarked this thing? Are there any reports that detail the performance increase? (And the RAM increase, I'm guessing) On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:49, Barry Byrne wrote: > Matthias: > > I think it was introduced in 4.4 but only enabled in the default kernel > from 4.5 on

RE: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Barry Byrne
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthias > Trevarthan > Sent: 25 September 2002 14:41 > To: Lowell Gilbert > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency > > > At what point in time was this feature intr

Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
At what point in time was this feature introduced? I have a number of 4.6.1-p10 systems that were upgraded from 4.4-RELEASE. Matthias > DIRHASH was standard in the GENERIC kernel by 4.6.2, so you should be > fine with hundreds of thousands of files. Just make sure that you > have "options UFS

Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Trevarthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these servers > handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're moving > towards a switch to qmail and maildir. > > I think maildir will significantly in

Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-25 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
Anyone? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 15:42, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: > Hi. > > My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these > servers handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're > moving towards a switch to qmail and maildir. > > I think maildir wil

4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-24 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
Hi. My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these servers handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're moving towards a switch to qmail and maildir. I think maildir will significantly increase the number of files on our disk. We may have to increas