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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:53:03 +0100
From:      deeptech71 <deeptech71@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: access to hard drives is "blocked" by writes to a flash drive
Message-ID:  <5149F77F.2000900@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130319172617.GA44701@blazingdot.com>
References:  <201303040301.r2431Rjm008175@gw.catspoiler.org> <51341AA6.7080601@gmail.com> <20130319172617.GA44701@blazingdot.com>

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On 03/19/2013 18:26, Marcus Reid wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:53:10AM +0100, deeptech71 wrote:
> I use atimes all the time to get to the bottom of lots of common
> problems.

Details !

It sounds like in your case, atime is a debugging feature (which are generally to be turned off on production systems).

> Turning off atime system-wide is a really bad move.

Your bikeshed.

Turning off atime works for me. SUPPORT_ATIME=0 would be an *optional* kernel option. Additionally a DEFAULT_NOATIME=1 may be provided.



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