On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is > > > one of the crunched programs, I realised that I really needed to make > > > newfs(8) use libufs. To show off that it *can* help us reduce space, > > > a good bit in some cases. > > > > Good to see this. Does libufs do an fsync() in bwrite() or do you need to > > do that manually in place of the previous calls to wtfsflush()? > > It doesn't. Do you think it should? I'd rather do that than litter the > newfs code.
Not needed. On second look, I see you removed the wc[] caching and fall back to just write(). (BTW, what's the performance difference with your patch?) If newfs doesn't complete successfully due to a system crash, it doesn't matter if data written was flushed to disk, just run it again. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
