From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 7:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (imr1.ericy.com [208.237.135.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D9937B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5u3.ericy.com [208.237.135.124]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71El6p24721; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:47:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71El6v15333; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:47:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f71El5A20980; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:47:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:47:04 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QBWKFMJ8; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:46:56 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: j mckitrick Cc: Rasputin , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B68165F.5090207@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:46:55 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010717 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | > 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