From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 8 14:48:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF9137B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08D843E4A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g98LmWmC062891 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:48:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g98LmWnS062890; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:48:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:48:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200210082148.g98LmWnS062890@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount option "nomtime"? In-Reply-To: <200210082003.g98K3Thx084532@apollo.backplane.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > atime/mtime/ctime updates will collect in the in-memory inode > and only be written to disk when the filesystem sync occurs once > every 30-60 seconds or so. This is how it works with or without > softupdates. Is that also true for NFS mounts? (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message