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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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