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 --- 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
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