From 6200d265d7e3baf9994c84a7aaaf71334dd74939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:38:11 +0000 Subject: Clarify dirprefs release note. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 9 +++++++-- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'release/doc') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index dba404a..50f8c9b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -944,8 +944,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. More details can be found in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/README.acls. - The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been - changed to improve its speed on large filesystems. &merged; + The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS + (dirprefs) has been changed. Rather than + scattering directory blocks across a disk, it attempts to group + related directory blocks together. Operations traversing large + directory hierarchies, such as the &os; Ports tree, have shown + marked speedups. This change is transparent and automatic for + new directories. &merged; smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added. The userland programs &man.smbutil.1; and &man.mount.smbfs.8; diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index dba404a..50f8c9b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -944,8 +944,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. More details can be found in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/README.acls. - The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been - changed to improve its speed on large filesystems. &merged; + The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS + (dirprefs) has been changed. Rather than + scattering directory blocks across a disk, it attempts to group + related directory blocks together. Operations traversing large + directory hierarchies, such as the &os; Ports tree, have shown + marked speedups. This change is transparent and automatic for + new directories. &merged; smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added. The userland programs &man.smbutil.1; and &man.mount.smbfs.8; -- cgit v1.1