From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 16:24: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288C337B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA55724; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:50:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:50:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: read only / filesystem Message-ID: <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000824002732.A45983@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000824101341.D66923@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000824130404.A51338@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000825111535.F548@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000825151255.A65178@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000825151255.A65178@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:12:55PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 25 August 2000 at 15:12:55 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:15:35AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> also, are there any benefits to doing this, or is the noatime option >>> good enough? >> >> There are certainly benefits. It makes the system a lot more crash >> resistant. > > This means resistant to hard drive corruption, right? It doesn't actually > affect OS stability. Correct. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message