Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:01:17 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount w/ noatime option Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970110060007.5112N-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970110093535.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > With all the talk about the noatime option, I figured I'd see > > what happens if I used mount from -current (3.0) on my 2.2 machine, > > since /usr/include/sys/mount.h defines MNT_NOATIME... > > > > It worked, but I'm wondering if this is "A Bad Thing"...like, > > It's not a Bad Thing per se, but i think it violates Posix. You > normally probably would like to keep the atime record, so you can > e.g. wipe out files from tmp areas nobody ever had a look at since > several days. You don't win much by not bumping the atime, except in > some situations like a newsserver -- but there, you win a lot. That's > why the option is there. > Oops, sorry...misworded the question :( I'm using the noatime option on my news server, but what I was worried about was taking the binary from a3.0 machine and using on a 2.2 machine, but everything so far seems right...
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