Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:02:02 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <20010801160202.B996@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <3B68165F.5090207@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:46:55AM -0400 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> <3B68165F.5090207@lmc.ericsson.se>
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:46:55AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: | > | > 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". :) My guess is he meant access time, not modification time. But I'm not 100% sure. | "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 jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." - Weekend Update, SNL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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