Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:46:55 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <3B68165F.5090207@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <20010801140842.A13836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010801142428.A60605@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <3B680E06.8090701@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010801152832.A828@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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> | > 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) > | > | Err... Isn't "atime" -> "access time"?? > | > | And the tuning(7) manpage on my -stable system doesn't mention this. > > Odd. Did you try searching for 'atime' and not 'access time' ? Well, yes.. The man page mentions "noatime" but does not talk about "modification times messing up logic". :) "Do not gratu- itously turn off atime updates everywhere.. for example, you might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only partitions such as / and /usr (especially for / since some system utilities use the atime field for reporting)." atime != mtime. :) A. -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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