Re: questions about performance and setup

[Michael T. Babcock]

Is UTIME necessary in a mail queue?  If a logging filesystem were mounted on a
separate disk (or network array, etc.) specifically for the mail queue,
shouldn't it be mounted without UTIME?

Bruce Guenter wrote:

> The only way to get truely zero seek performance is to use a
> log-structured file system on a clean disk.  Otherwise, you will seek
> occasionally to write out some dirty metadata.  Even if you pre-allocate
> your log file on a regular filesystem, you will seek occasionally (once
> a second, AFAICT) to update the utime in the inode.