Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:35:35 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount w/ noatime option Message-ID: <Mutt.19970110093535.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970109175048.5112a-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Jan 9, 1997 17:53:22 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970109175048.5112a-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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As The Hermit Hacker wrote: > With all the talk about the noatime option, I figured I'd see > what happens if I used mount from -current (3.0) on my 2.2 machine, > since /usr/include/sys/mount.h defines MNT_NOATIME... > > It worked, but I'm wondering if this is "A Bad Thing"...like, It's not a Bad Thing per se, but i think it violates Posix. You normally probably would like to keep the atime record, so you can e.g. wipe out files from tmp areas nobody ever had a look at since several days. You don't win much by not bumping the atime, except in some situations like a newsserver -- but there, you win a lot. That's why the option is there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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