atom feed19 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-mobileRe: Extreme filesystem sloth
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Harry PutnamNov 27, 2001 10:16 pm 
Daniel O'ConnorNov 27, 2001 10:28 pm 
Robert BlacquièreNov 27, 2001 10:42 pm 
Harry PutnamNov 27, 2001 10:52 pm 
Brian T.SchellenbergerNov 27, 2001 11:12 pm 
Greg LeheyNov 27, 2001 11:32 pm 
Alfred PerlsteinNov 27, 2001 11:34 pm 
Daniel O'ConnorNov 28, 2001 12:03 am 
Harry PutnamNov 28, 2001 2:21 am 
Daniel O'ConnorNov 28, 2001 5:15 am 
Jeremiah GowdyNov 28, 2001 6:53 am 
Chris FaulhaberNov 28, 2001 6:55 am 
Chad R. LarsonNov 28, 2001 2:42 pm 
Chad R. LarsonNov 28, 2001 9:27 pm 
John UtzNov 29, 2001 1:08 pm 
Scott LambertNov 29, 2001 1:09 pm 
G.E. RafeNov 29, 2001 1:59 pm 
Torfinn IngolfsenNov 29, 2001 2:00 pm 
Daniel O'ConnorNov 29, 2001 3:54 pm 
Subject:Re: Extreme filesystem sloth
From:Chris Faulhaber (jed@fxp.org)
Date:Nov 28, 2001 6:55:32 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-mobile

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:53:43AM -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:

Also consider upgrading to 4.4-stable. It has a new disk layout algorithm which some people have reported to provide speedups on the order of 20x (!)

(Though you have to empty and re-fill your paritions to take full advantage of it.)

I assume you're talking about the dirprefs code from OpenBSD, from that Russian guy ? That's been committed ? No more problems with fdisk and friends ?

Yes. Yes (been in -stable since Sep 21). Nope (unless you have something new to report).

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