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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:43:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, bde@zeta.org.au, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject:   Re: Softupdates panics
Message-ID:  <199809272243.PAA02566@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 28, 98 05:46:36 am

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> 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
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