From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 16 10:55:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (freebsddiary.org.ua [213.186.199.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601FE37B401 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4GHsuS7007258; Thu, 16 May 2002 20:54:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4GHsseB007257; Thu, 16 May 2002 20:54:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:54:53 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Ian Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: filesystem performance (was: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea) Message-ID: <20020516175453.GA7239@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <20020515204323.G19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Ian! On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:04:28AM -0600, you wrote: > >> But I've always been under the impression that softupdates helps with write > >> performance, especially writing filesystem metadata, and very little writing > >> happens on my root filesystems, I believe. > > > > A bit of. If you mount / with atime turned off. And if not -- each time > > you access e.g. /etc/resolv.conf.... > > > > Sincerely, > > D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] > > I use the noatime option on all my filesystems. If anyone knows of a good > reason to not do that, feel free to let me know. (Other than the obvious > reason, of course, that I can't see when a file was last accessed; I've > decided I can live without ever knowing that.) Mail clients. To determine mail arrival. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message