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Date:      Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:15:45 -0800
From:      Zev Thompson <zev@interchange.ubc.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: noatime switch on local mount
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020201041545.00f94078@pop.interchange.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020131185930.GA2520@raggedclown.net>
References:  <20020131191902.P68986@roman.mobil.cz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020131112513.00aa6c20@postoffice.swbell.net> <20020131191902.P68986@roman.mobil.cz>

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>> > Reading that atime update really isn't that big of a hit for casual
systems 
>> > (expect for make world stuff) like mine but hey, never hurts to get a 
>> > little more performance out of my box :)

>Well you can use it in "find" for whatever reason as well.
>I should think any performance gain a small system might gain for it 
>would be infinitesimally small, and as noted above, it will break
>new mail notification.

I read a page of FreeBSD filesystem benchmarks a while back that showed
the noatime flag to give a performance increase on the order of that gained
by setting the async flag, or using softupdates. But as I can't find a link to
it right now, I'm not willing to pretend I know it to be true.

Zev

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