Re: NODIRATIME...great work!

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:59:16 +1000


Perry Harrington writes:
> I believe it was a Gooch hack? Great work people. I turned this on, and

Yeah, I 'fess up. It was me.

> my disk tree read speed was fscking fast!!! Now I can cache my entire
> mount tree and do a find without hearing any disk access. X loads
> faster, Netscape loads faster, this hack really kicks ass!
>
> Thanks, this was actually more noticable than the noatime patch.

Nodiratime should be a functional subset of noatime. Using nodiratime
should not give any more performance (less disc activity) than
noatime.

Regards,

Richard....

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