From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 17:22:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5799C37BB1C for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA69858; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3969172D.D3A30104@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:22:05 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: "David J. Kanter" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates question References: <20000709005612.A89313@localhost.localdomain> <20000709.23515500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > If performance is your main concern, you may wish to enable > softupdates and the "noatime" option for all filesystems except for > "/". This last filesystem ("/") should (normally) be used only with > the "noatime" option. I've read many posts from some really smart people that said not only does noatime not help you in combination with softupdates, but it can actually hurt you. Also, you shouldn't be doing a lot of i/o on your root filesystem anyway, so I wouldn't advise using noatime on that one either. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message