Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:04:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <199809272004.NAA27661@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809261518.IAA00908@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from "Don Lewis" at Sep 26, 98 08:18:10 am
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> } 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
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