Re: noatime support in kernel?

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:14:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> Yep however in the meantime noatime is a huge win. If we ever go to a log based
> fs it will be superb (on a solaris box with logging ufs the log disk is
> basically jammed with atime updates on a big news server).

I've been using Clayton O'Neill's patch posted to linux-kernel for a
number of weeks. No problems encountered so far. I've not done any
benchmarks though. This is on a server running unoff4 with 6 feeds and
usually a dozen or more readers.

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