Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:01:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <199809272001.NAA27569@usr05.primenet.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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