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
