Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Jun 24 06:05:58 UTC 2009


On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:04 -0400 Nirmal Thacker
<thacker.nirmal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of
> setting up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on
> the lines of:
> 
> 1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build
> 2. Check out a version of the Build suitable for the project

All development is taking place in -CURRENT, so you would have to check
out this one, or you install it right away, it's not declared stable
yet, but as we have started the release management process for 8.0,
it's not that unstable either... :)

> 3. Pointers to begin studying the current implementation in the
> code-tree structure (would I expect it to lie in the fs/ directory?).
> I tried to find it in the FreeBSD cross reference
> (http://fxr.watson.org/) 4. Read some important sections of the
> developer handbook (some suggestions would be great)

Dump is a complete userland implementation. All you need to know is the
userland programming stuff, specially for what you want to do. You can
find it online at
   http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sbin/dump/

Bye,
Alexander.


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