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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 20:54:53 +0300
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: filesystem performance (was: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea)
Message-ID:  <20020516175453.GA7239@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <B907F13B.D021%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
References:  <20020515204323.G19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> <B907F13B.D021%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>

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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.)
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-- 
NEVE-RIPE

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