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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