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Date:      Fri, 31 May 1996 12:13:37 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.960531121214.7433A-100000@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605291750.NAA23605@rk.ios.com>

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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Rashid Karimov wrote:

> >    I added an option "noatime" to mount/fstab and implemented a special
> > per-mount flag for this in the kernel. I was only interested in disabling
> > the access time; I wanted the inode change time and modify times to still
> > work correctly. My application, of course, was wcarchive - a machine with
> > millions of files that spends about 1/3-1/2 of all of it's disk I/O just
> > updating the access times in the inodes.
> > 
> > -DG
> > 
> > David Greenman
> 
> 	David, could you submit those patches ? May be we can even add
> 	this as an OPTION to the kernel config file? 

I second this request.  It would be very useful for disks dedicated to 
WWW servers or WWW proxy servers.

danny



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