Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:23:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: murray@stokely.org Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30675: `noatime' should be discouraged on /var as well Message-ID: <20010924052330.F1510@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200109240200.f8O202M57176@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200109240200.f8O202M57176@freefall.freebsd.org>
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murray@stokely.org <murray@stokely.org> wrote: > > Subject: Re: docs/30675: `noatime' should be discouraged on /var as well > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:50:24 -0700 > > .. So, can someone provide an example sentence or two that they would > like to add to tuning(7)? A diff would be even better. Something like the following patch maybe? -giorgos --- patch-tuning begins here --- Index: tuning.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 tuning.7 --- tuning.7 17 Sep 2001 03:49:51 -0000 1.16 +++ tuning.7 24 Sep 2001 02:21:25 -0000 @@ -211,8 +211,11 @@ creating a burden on the system. For example, if you are running a heavily loaded web site, or a news server with lots of readers, you might want to consider turning off atime updates on your larger partitions with this -mount option. Do not gratuitously turn off atime updates everywhere.. for -example, you might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only +mount option. Do not gratuitously turn off atime updates everywhere.. +You should definitely avoid turning atime updates off for your /var +filesystem, since /var customarily holds mailboxes, and atime (in combination +with mtime) is used to determine whether a mailbox has new mail. +You might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only partitions such as / and /usr (especially for / since some system utilities use the atime field for reporting). .Sh STRIPING DISKS --- patch-tuning ends here --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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