From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 13:04:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05951 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05919 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28015; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:04:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd027990; Sun Sep 27 13:04:30 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27661; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:04:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809272004.NAA27661@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Softupdates panics To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:04:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809261518.IAA00908@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from "Don Lewis" at Sep 26, 98 08:18:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > } We should probably refuse to use > } bth at the same time. noatime seems to be unnecessary with SU anyway. > > If you are reading lots of files and writing lots of files on the same > disk, it would seem to improve performance if you avoiding writing back > the inodes of files that had only been read. If you are only reading > files on the filesystem, I don't see where softupdates buys you any > performance increase, whereas noatime does. If you are only reading, then mount it read-only. This will get you the desired "noatime" behaviour. 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