From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 10: 4:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8389437B422 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13SjNd-0004gx-00; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:04:29 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA80588; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:04:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:04:27 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: read only / filesystem Message-ID: <20000826180427.A80505@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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> <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:50:36AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:50:36AM +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. but if hard drives are so reliable these days, does this really make much of a difference? Also, if the only writes to / were the tty write and the chmods for the gettys (i believe, or something similar) then what other stray or corrupt writes are prevented? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message