Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:10:14 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modifying file access time upon exec... Message-ID: <20050527131014.GA93850@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <1117195655.88498.9.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1117139065.82793.20.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050527091750.GB91258@stack.nl> <1117195655.88498.9.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu>
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--OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:07:35AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > I don't see any real problems with it, but perhaps people running > > executables over NFS filesystems that cannot be mounted with noatime > > might have an issue, like netbooting diskless machines... >=20 > I'm not sure why you say NFS filesystems can't be mounted with noatime. No, I'm saying that there are filesystems you wouldn't want to mount with noatime (/tmp, /var/tmp, /var/mail, /var/spool/*) because some software depends on the atime being adjusted. But atime over NFS is something you'd usually want to turn off, because it can really hurt performance. Marc --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFClxw2ezjnobFOgrERAqxXAKC7+AFrbbnRugf4YzMCyETehEQuMACeKcyM Q9oerrSRekCtKu6wLYTSO1w= =OIt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--
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