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Date:      Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:04:27 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: read only / filesystem
Message-ID:  <20000826180427.A80505@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:50:36AM %2B0930
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>

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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
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