Subject: Re: OpenBSD's new ffs_dirpref() code
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/11/2001 06:38:59
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:11:40AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > That looks very interesting. Was that test with our without softdep?
> > I think we should definitely have a look at this and bring it in if at all
> > possible. The time it takes to untar (and rm) a directory tree is
> > annoying in NetBSD at the moment.
> We should, yes. It's worth noting that this change also appeared
> in FreeBSD (and it may in fact have appeared there first), and it's
> something that our Charles Hannum suggested ... quite a long time ago
> (at least a year) -- just hadn't gotten around to implementing.
FreeBSD's CVS logs mention that they got the changes from OpenBSD (and are
dated newer than the OpenBSD logs as well).
Jared