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Subject: Re: UFS no_atime patch? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 04:04:07 -0800
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>in <m0vJQNj-0005KgC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> i read
>about a patch for the linux ext2fs filesystem, that
>disables updating the access time of files to speed
>up news spool filesystems.
>
>needless to say, that would be useful.

   I added a "noatime" filesystem mount option a few months ago to FreeBSD. It
will be available in the upcoming 2.2 release.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project