Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:22:05 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates question Message-ID: <3969172D.D3A30104@gorean.org> References: <20000709005612.A89313@localhost.localdomain> <20000709.23515500@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> If performance is your main concern, you may wish to enable
> softupdates and the "noatime" option for all filesystems except for
> "/". This last filesystem ("/") should (normally) be used only with
> the "noatime" option.
I've read many posts from some really smart people that said not only does
noatime not help you in combination with softupdates, but it can actually
hurt you. Also, you shouldn't be doing a lot of i/o on your root filesystem
anyway, so I wouldn't advise using noatime on that one either.
Good luck,
Doug
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