Improving old-fashioned UFS2 performance with lots of inodes...

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 28 June 2011 02:08, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
>>
>> On what exact OS version?  Please don't say "8.2", need to know
>> 8.2-RELEASE, -STABLE, or what.  You said "8.x" above, which is too
>> vague.  If 8.2-STABLE you should not be tuning vm.kmem_size_max at all,
>> and you probably don't need to tune vm.kmem_size either.
>
> We don't do 8.2-STABLE, it's 8-STABLE.... Are you referring to the
> difference between RELENG_8_2 and RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE?
>
> Chris

I've heard this mantra repeated before on list. If this is in fact
true, then something needs to change so that uname -r agrees:

> $ svn info | grep URL ; uname -r
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8
8.2-STABLE

As far as the OS is concerned, 8.2-STABLE is RELENG_8 sometime between
when RELENG_8_2 was branched and when RELENG_8_3 will be branched, and
is an entirely legit description. IMO, just because it does not
correspond to a specific branch or tag does not leave it without
meaning.

Cheers

Tom