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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:08:18 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: noatime with softupdates -- superfluous?
Message-ID:  <99Jul30.074923est.40331@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <14240.40500.685249.77954@avalon.east>

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Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> wrote:
>I used to observe notable speedup for long recursive directory
>operations by specifying noatime in mounts.  Does this really matter
>any more with softupdates?

AFAIK, atime updates are already treated as asynchronous, so switching
to softupdates should have minimal impact.

To put it another way, specifying noatime _will_ enhance the
performance of softupdates because it removes the necessity to write
the updated inode back to disk.

Peter


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