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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 09:18:46 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: Softupdates panics
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>} > added `noatime' to two of my heavily used softupdates slices in 
>} 
>} noatime with SU is a known Bad Thing[tm].
>
>I hadn't heard this.  I don't know why that would be true.

It is superstition.  Perhaps stamping atimes hides some bugs in
softupdates by causing more frequent updates or changing the timing
of the updates.

Bruce

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