From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 4:29:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (spook.networkoperations.com [209.42.203.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF21237BEA1 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@firehouse.net) Received: (qmail 7360 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Apr 2000 11:29:50 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:29:50 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Milda Mimiene Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: noatime Message-ID: <20000414072950.C4425@ecto.greenpeas.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from milda@vandenis.sc-uni.ktu.lt on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:56:03PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Milda Mimiene spewed forth the following bitstream: [two disks are mounted noatime] > /export/disk1 and /export/disk2 is used for cache > > But I still get warning in my log files such as: > Apr 13 12:19:54 aitra /kernel: /export/disk2: optimization changed from > SPACE to TIME > Apr 13 16:33:52 aitra /kernel: /export/disk2: optimization changed from > TIME to SPACE This has nothing to to with atime. Atime is a field in the directory entry for each file/directory that records the time of last access. What you are seeing in the message above is a change in disk usage strategy caused by the crossing of a usage percentage. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message