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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Mount option "nomtime"?
References:  <200210082148.g98LmWnS062890@lurza.secnetix.de>
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:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 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

    It is a function of the NFS server, not the NFS client.  I would
    presume that a NetApp does the right thing.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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