Somewhere between these two it seems like a notable speedup happened regarding [re]reads of large directories under i386+sha256+geli. Feels like dirhash did on ufs. Maybe it's just the post update newness faking me out, but I bow low anyways. FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Wed May 23 2012 FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 4 2012