Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: noatime support in kernel? | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:01:17 +0100 (BST) |
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> Ouch. Since the directory is already cached (you got the inode by reading a > directory, hopefully...), that change shouldn't make any difference.
The directory caches are too small to help with news. Thats something we need to look hard at.
> If you want direct access to the news storage, then it'd be better to drop > the idea of a file system entirely. There are better ways... for instance, > a bunch of huge cyclic files (one for each range of article expiry dates).
Yep however in the meantime noatime is a huge win. If we ever go to a log based fs it will be superb (on a solaris box with logging ufs the log disk is basically jammed with atime updates on a big news server).
Alan
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