From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 8 15: 3:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E539137B404 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC4843E88 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g98M3OGI010628; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:03:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200210082203.g98M3OGI010628@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount option "nomtime"? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:48:32 +0200." <200210082148.g98LmWnS062890@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Mailer: mh-e 6.1+cvs; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:03:24 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver> (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new Oliver> newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data Oliver> including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.) For local INN storage you can avoid the mtime issue simply by using raw disk partitions. For cycbufs, you don't need the filesystem -- just treat the raw disk as the file. By bypassing the filesystem you eliminate all of its overhead. The INN documentation describes how to set this up. You might want to try this before committing $$$$$$$$$$ to a netapp filer. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message