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


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