Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 11:13:44 +0000 From: void <void@f-m.fm> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noatime on ufs2 Message-ID: <ZZ0qaGK0UErpdyw3@int21h> In-Reply-To: <6714298.qJWK8QVVMX@ravel> References: <ZZqmmM-6f606bLJx@int21h> <CAGMYy3vsSD7HHtGxYXJn%2Busr8GCOd-0Xe1crs-Nx=qw-bYJ6HA@mail.gmail.com> <2eabfb91-afc3-47f7-98b9-1a1791ae6e7d@app.fastmail.com> <6714298.qJWK8QVVMX@ravel>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote:i > So, to me, at this point, it still sounds more than a gimmick > than something really useful. If someone has a precise use case > for it and motivation, than of course please go ahead. The only use-cases I [1] can think of are either with an email system that needs it or with something like a webserver where there's a team of devops working on the web service who need elevated access and a couple of sysadmins who need root for their general job, and audit or similar is used to log these accesses. But maybe there are more use-cases for atime? but as has been mentioned, most modern mail systems don't need it and I'm not sure how much something like audit would. Do things like tripwire/mtree need it? It's an interesting question. [1] in my limited experience. i've only seen email "needing" it and that's only in some contexts --
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