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From: Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.demisel.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: noatime,nodiratime?
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:33:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxvveqyq.fsf@petole.demisel.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF3F212.5030600@hardwarefreak.com>

Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> writes:
> Need a little education here.  I have a general understanding of what the
> inode access timestamps "are" but I have no idea what, if any, applications
> make use of these access times.  I see posts all over Google land saying to
> use "noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8" for XFS mount options to increase
> performance.

BTW, about the mount options for XFS, is there a way to check for the
default values (things like logbsize, logbufs, something else)?

I used to have noatime,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k on my fileserver, not
sure if these are still necessary.

Thanks,
-- 
Nicolas

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 14:13 noatime,nodiratime? Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-19 17:33 ` Nicolas KOWALSKI [this message]
2010-05-19 18:00   ` noatime,nodiratime? Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-19 18:24     ` noatime,nodiratime? Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-19 19:10       ` noatime,nodiratime? Nicolas KOWALSKI
2010-05-19 18:23 ` noatime,nodiratime? Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-19 19:25   ` noatime,nodiratime? Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-19 19:50     ` noatime,nodiratime? Eric Sandeen
2010-05-19 23:46       ` noatime,nodiratime? Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-26 14:53         ` noatime,nodiratime? Michael Monnerie
2010-05-26 23:18         ` noatime,nodiratime? Dave Chinner

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