Subject: Re: changing default for UFS_DIRHASH and NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2005 09:47:15
In message <20050603153838.GA168@vaasje.org>,
Frank van der Linden writes:

>On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> UFS_DIRHASH and NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY are reputedly stable for all the
>> people using them, but we still have them commented out in our
>> GENERICs.
>> 
>> I'd like to propose uncommenting them out, i.e. turning them on by
>> default.
>
>As I recal, Juergen has said that NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY works fine in a few
>circumstances, but not in others, and that he didn't favor enabling it by
>default. I'll have to go with the author's opinion on that one.

Hi Frank,

Is it possible you're thinking of something similar I once said?
(OTOH, I'm not the author; isn't Jun-Young?)