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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Softupdates panics
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:01:31 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
In-Reply-To: <199809262318.JAA10324@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 27, 98 09:18:46 am
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> >} > added `noatime' to two of my heavily used softupdates slices in 
> >} 
> >} noatime with SU is a known Bad Thing[tm].
> >
> >I hadn't heard this.  I don't know why that would be true.
> 
> It is superstition.  Perhaps stamping atimes hides some bugs in
> softupdates by causing more frequent updates or changing the timing
> of the updates.

Doing "noatime" results in the loss of an inode write order
dependency.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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