Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:16:13 -0600 From: robert@rrbrussell.com To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noatime on ufs2 Message-ID: <5f370bce-bcdb-47ea-aaa7-551ee092a7d3@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ZZ0qaGK0UErpdyw3@int21h> References: <ZZqmmM-6f606bLJx@int21h> <CAGMYy3vsSD7HHtGxYXJn%2Busr8GCOd-0Xe1crs-Nx=qw-bYJ6HA@mail.gmail.com> <2eabfb91-afc3-47f7-98b9-1a1791ae6e7d@app.fastmail.com> <6714298.qJWK8QVVMX@ravel> <ZZ0qaGK0UErpdyw3@int21h>
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On Tue, Jan 9, 2024, at 05:13, void wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote:i > >> So, to me, at this point, it still sounds more than a gimmick >> than something really useful. If someone has a precise use case >> for it and motivation, than of course please go ahead. > > The only use-cases I [1] can think of are either with an email system > that needs it or with something like a webserver where there's > a team of devops working on the web service who need elevated access > and a couple of sysadmins who need root for their general job, and audit > or similar is used to log these accesses. > > But maybe there are more use-cases for atime? > > but as has been mentioned, most modern mail systems don't need it > and I'm not sure how much something like audit would. Do things > like tripwire/mtree need it? It's an interesting question. No, they use other data and checksums instead of access times. > > [1] in my limited experience. i've only seen email "needing" it > and that's only in some contexts > --
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