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* j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [010801 14:17]:
> 
> In the article in Daemonnews on tuning a BSD box for high performance, there
> were 2 miscellaneous tweaks mentioned.  One was partition layout, and the
> other was turning on 'noatime' for most of the partitions.
> 
> What partition layout strategies are suggested for servers? For
> workstations?
> 
> I have noatime turned on for my root partition.  What other partitions can
> use this setting for servers?  And for workstations?  Does it have any
> downside?

I think 'man tuning' says that noatime can mess up applications
that use the modification time in their logic.
(I wouldn't put it on /var, but that's mainly superstition)


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