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author | murray <murray@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-09-24 07:35:37 +0000 |
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committer | murray <murray@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-09-24 07:35:37 +0000 |
commit | bb01b0fc8830969df18f716abc170a6f5efb9ed3 (patch) | |
tree | 8ff435f5be15bdf84e5ff97963a8f7eb876d358f /share | |
parent | 6f24794a06c37ba820ffa15bbeef0f81cf773312 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-bb01b0fc8830969df18f716abc170a6f5efb9ed3.zip FreeBSD-src-bb01b0fc8830969df18f716abc170a6f5efb9ed3.tar.gz |
Note that it might not be a good idea to mount /var 'noatime'.
PR: docs/30675
Submitted by: Eugene M. Kim <gene@nttmcl.com>, and
Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
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-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/tuning.7 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index dc623d4..821dd05 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -211,10 +211,13 @@ basis the buffer cache can wind up getting polluted with atime updates, creating a burden on the system. For example, if you are running a heavily loaded web site, or a news server with lots of readers, you might want to consider turning off atime updates on your larger partitions with this -mount option. Do not gratuitously turn off atime updates everywhere.. for -example, you might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only -partitions such as / and /usr (especially for / since some system utilities -use the atime field for reporting). +mount option. However, you should not gratuitously turn off atime +updates everywhere. For example, the /var filesystem customarily +holds mailboxes, and atime (in combination with mtime) is used to +determine whether a mailbox has new mail. You might as well leave +atime turned on for mostly read-only partitions such as / and /usr +as well. This is especially useful for / since some system utilities +use the atime field for reporting. .Sh STRIPING DISKS In larger systems you can stripe partitions from several drives together to create a much larger overall partition. Striping can also improve |