The following reply was made to PR kern/35187; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/35187 (Certain file operations--such as chown--take inordinate amounts of time on LFS)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:00:47 -0500

 There is a simple way to mitigate this to some extent (seems to help
 with chmod/chown, but not with the queue backup when untarring
 something) though I doubt it is safe only because it is purposefully
 excluded from the code:
 
 At the beginning lfs_writevnodes() in lfs_segment.c, change the #if 0
 to 1 so that it starts with the newest instead of oldest vnode.
 
 Unfortunately I havent thought of any better way to do this yet, as
 most likely doing so is beyond my ability. :(
 
 --Blair
 
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