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Author SHA1 Message Date
dillon
401c720261 Readjust the cache initialization code to make it more obvious that the
cache is bypassed when disabled.
2003-01-25 19:06:30 +00:00
dillon
5b697ad7ba Add a caching option to dump. Use -C. Note that NetBSD has a caching option
called -r but it takes 512 byte blocks instead of megabytes, and I felt a
megabytes specification would be far more useful so I did not use the same
option character.

This will *greatly* improve dump performance at the cost of possibly
missing filesystem changes that occur between passes, and does a fairly
good job making up for the loss of buffered block devices.  Caching is disabled
by default to retain historical behavior.

In tests, dump performance improved by about 40% when dumping / or /usr.

Beware that dump forks and the cache may wind up being larger then you
specify, but a more complex shared memory implementation would not produce
results that are all that much better so I kept it simple for now.

MFC after:	3 days
2003-01-13 19:42:41 +00:00