Am 15.11.2013 01:00, schrieb Mark Felder: > On Nov 14, 2013, at 15:04, Teske, Devin <devin.te...@fisglobal.com> wrote: >> Sounds like a vote for enabling it where-needed by-default (e.g., /var as a >> whole >> or more selectively, /var/mail) > > I'd be OK with FreeBSD taking a stance and moving to noatime by default but > we should be consistent across all filesystems that a user can install the OS > on from our provided installation media. We should make it obvious to the end > users as well.
The cost of atime on UFS and ZFS is quite different. While I understand that consistency is a plus, I do think that there is good reason to have different defaults for UFS and ZFS. It would be good if there was a global parameter which let the user choose the atime setting for all file-systems where this setting is not overridden. Such a parameter could be OFF (noatime) for ZFS and ON for UFS by default, but with a short explanation about the consequences and a way to toggle this setting if desired. Regards, STefan _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
