From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 13:47:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16353 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16347 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id WAA09284 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:47:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id 489281531; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:03:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:03:33 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <19980926220333.A20259@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199809261518.IAA00908@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: <199809261518.IAA00908@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:18:10AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-BETA/ELF ctm#4660 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Don Lewis: > I hadn't heard this. I don't know why that would be true. I remember people getting panics when running noatime with SU. I've got a few myself (although they were more unstable than now). > the inodes of files that had only been read. If you are only reading > files on the filesystem, I don't see where softupdates buys you any > performance increase, whereas noatime does. I just found that it doesn't seem to make a big difference having both. YMMV... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-BETA #0: Sat Sep 19 23:38:25 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message