Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:50:54AM -0500 I heard the voice of
Doug Poland, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> In addition, it appears that compiling support for quotas in the
> kernel will force the Giant lock on UFS and I want to make sure I
> won't have a performance regression on the filesystem.

I can tell you that the impact will range from negligable to
significant, depending on the particular workload.

I have a RELENG_6 box that, for hysterical raisins, has the ports tree
on a partition with quotas, and a large 'portsnap update' gets VERY
jerky.


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