From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 15:44:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02994 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02927 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17447; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:43:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017412; Sun Sep 27 15:43:15 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02566; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:43:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809272243.PAA02566@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Softupdates panics To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, bde@zeta.org.au, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In-Reply-To: <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 28, 98 05:46:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So? what's being written while you're reading a file? > > If you're reading and writing the file together, then the modtime stamps > will cause the inode to be written out. If you're just reading, there is > no metadata dependency at all because nothing is changed at all. > > Had anybody got problems with softupdates that can be specifically > attributed to the use of -noatime ? See the most recent stack traceback posted in this forum, and Don Lewis' analysis. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message