From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 21:58:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639D316A418 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cb@severious.net) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAF113C474 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cb@severious.net) Received: by ion.gank.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0434811A7B; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:58:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:58:12 -0500 From: Craig Boston To: Gore Jarold Message-ID: <20070910215812.GB10142@nowhere> Mail-Followup-To: Craig Boston , Gore Jarold , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <704329.73647.qm@web63015.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <704329.73647.qm@web63015.mail.re1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noatime on / and /var too ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:58:13 -0000 On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:17:09PM -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > I know it won't change much since they are not busy > filesystems, but if there is no risk and no "best > practices" reason _not_ to do it, I might as well... I always set noatime on everything for years now and have never run into any problems with it. Unless you're specifically using atime for something (I think some news server software may use it), I can't think of a good reason to leave it enabled. Craig