Re: noatime patch, other uses ?

Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.nl)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:04:45 +0200

Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer wrote:
> I've a few mail-servers with around 3k - 10k users.
> Would the noatime patch be usable under such a system ?

Hardly. Mailsystems tend to do read/write cycles, not read-only.
So it won't help much (it will break "finger").

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