Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:04:27 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: read only / filesystem Message-ID: <20000826180427.A80505@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:50:36AM %2B0930 References: <20000824002732.A45983@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000824101341.D66923@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000824130404.A51338@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000825111535.F548@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000825151255.A65178@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000826085036.B52219@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:50:36AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: | >>> also, are there any benefits to doing this, or is the noatime option | >>> good enough? | >> | >> There are certainly benefits. It makes the system a lot more crash | >> resistant. | > | > This means resistant to hard drive corruption, right? It doesn't actually | > affect OS stability. | | Correct. but if hard drives are so reliable these days, does this really make much of a difference? Also, if the only writes to / were the tty write and the chmods for the gettys (i believe, or something similar) then what other stray or corrupt writes are prevented? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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