Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:32:34 -0400 From: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Cc: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official images without noatime Message-ID: <4b23b28ffae59216b5dde8f28f665330@mail.lifanov.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.41.1458993601.86944.freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.41.1458993601.86944.freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
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> > Hi, > agree, in fact I have noatime on / as well. Shall be the default. > > > > Cheers, > > > --- > Jos? P?rez > > El 2016-03-26 00:38, Bernd Walter escribi?: >> /boot/msdos has noatime, but / hasn't. >> Considering SD media I think using noatime per default is a good >> idea to avoid increased riscs of data loss on power failures. > Since we also default to SU-no-J, power failure can be quite bad during, say, installworld. With / noatime, I had my RPI2 lose files like /usr/bin/cmp, /bin/ls, and /bin/cat during a power loss. Since it's not even possible to cleanly shut down this platform, I'm for enabling noatime for / on at least for RPI and RPI2 platforms. - Nikolai Lifanov
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