> Olivier Certner <olce_at_freebsd.org> wrote on > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:01:48 UTC : > > > What I'm saying is that, based on others' input so far, my own (long, even > > if not as long as yours) experience and some late reflection, is that > > "noatime" should be the default (everywhere, all mounts and all FSes), and > > that working on "relatime" won't make any real difference for most users > > (IOW, I think that developing "relatime" is a bad idea *in general*). And I > > think this is a sufficiently reasonable conclusion that anyone with the > > same inputs would conclude the same. So, if it's not the case, I would be > > interested in knowing why, ideally. > > I never use atime, always noatime, for UFS. That said, I'd never propose > changing the long standing defaults for commands and calls. I'd avoid:
.. Very well said Mark ... Please folks stop tweaking defaults, especially long standing ones, if you feel the need for noatime, set it, by all means, I have been for 30 years.... .. what Mark said very well removed for brevity ... > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org