From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sat Mar 26 12:32:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12CAADD871; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lifanov@mail.lifanov.com) Received: from mail.lifanov.com (mail.lifanov.com [206.125.175.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C08911E71; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lifanov@mail.lifanov.com) Received: by mail.lifanov.com (Postfix, from userid 58) id B6C36239E54; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:32:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on mail.lifanov.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT shortcircuit=ham autolearn=disabled version=3.4.1 Received: from app.lifanov.com (chat.lifanov.com [206.125.175.13]) by mail.lifanov.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7D914239E52; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:32:35 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:32:34 -0400 From: Nikolai Lifanov To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Cc: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official images without noatime In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4b23b28ffae59216b5dde8f28f665330@mail.lifanov.com> X-Sender: lifanov@mail.lifanov.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:32:44 -0000 > > Hi, > agree, in fact I have noatime on / as well. Shall be the default. > > > > Cheers, > > > --- > Jos? P?rez > > El 2016-03-26 00:38, Bernd Walter escribi?: >> /boot/msdos has noatime, but / hasn't. >> Considering SD media I think using noatime per default is a good >> idea to avoid increased riscs of data loss on power failures. > Since we also default to SU-no-J, power failure can be quite bad during, say, installworld. With / noatime, I had my RPI2 lose files like /usr/bin/cmp, /bin/ls, and /bin/cat during a power loss. Since it's not even possible to cleanly shut down this platform, I'm for enabling noatime for / on at least for RPI and RPI2 platforms. - Nikolai Lifanov