* j mckitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010801 14:17]:
>
> In the article in Daemonnews on tuning a BSD box for high performance, there
> were 2 miscellaneous tweaks mentioned. One was partition layout, and the
> other was turning on 'noatime' for most of the partitions.
>
> What partition layout strategies are suggested for servers? For
> workstations?
>
> I have noatime turned on for my root partition. What other partitions can
> use this setting for servers? And for workstations? Does it have any
> downside?
I think 'man tuning' says that noatime can mess up applications
that use the modification time in their logic.
(I wouldn't put it on /var, but that's mainly superstition)
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