On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:25:23AM GMT, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019-11-30, Raymond, David wrote:
> > I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> > use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> > systems with a mix of SS
On 2019-11-30, Raymond, David wrote:
> I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
>
> Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding f
On 2019-12-02, Steve Litt wrote:
> I mount everything noatime because I don't care at all about access
> time, I care about modification time.
Access time can be useful in forensics and debugging ("when was program
X last used? when was this file last opened?") but often you won't know
until afte
On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:10:37 +0100
Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 06:12:42AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> [...]
> > On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
> > number of disk writes?
> [...]
>
> I wonder what other will say about this, but I mount every
On 2019-11-30 08:12, Raymond, David wrote:
> I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
>
> Softdep seems to have some advantages in speed
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 09:20:37PM +0100, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote:
> Dear Mr. Rola,
>
> > I wonder what other will say about this, but I mount everything as
> > noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume this may
>
> Do you mount swap as noatime too, I'm curious?
>
> Yours sin
On 30.11.2019 14:12, Raymond, David wrote:
I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding file access, but
Dear Mr. Rola,
> I wonder what other will say about this, but I mount everything as
> noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume this may
Do you mount swap as noatime too, I'm curious?
Yours sincerely,
Xianwen
On Nov 30 06:12:42, david.raym...@nmt.edu wrote:
> On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
> number of disk writes?
noatime is worth setting on filesystems where you don't care
about atime (a mail client might care about the atime of your
/var/mail/mbox, for instance).
SS
Hello,
david.raym...@nmt.edu (Raymond, David), 2019.11.30 (Sat) 14:12 (CET):
> I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
>
> Softdep see
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 06:12:42AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
[...]
> On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
> number of disk writes?
[...]
I wonder what other will say about this, but I mount everything as
noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume th
I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding file access, but it
is not the default. Are there any downsides
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