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Date:      Thu, 20 May 2004 23:17:17 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disabling atime updates...
Message-ID:  <40AD74BD.8030005@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <40AD72CF.6010201@meijome.net>
References:  <40AD72CF.6010201@meijome.net>

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Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm plan to disable atime updates in some Web + MySQL servers (to get a 
> bit more performance, even if insignificant).
> 
> Is there any OS, Apache or MySQL feature that would be affected by 
> setting noatime in fstab? ( I couldn't find any reference, even man 8 
> mount says it's hardly ever used)

I think you've got a greenlight here.  I've seen lots of people use
noatime, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble.  I'm sort of
surprised that noatime isn't the default ...

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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