Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:56:43 -0400 (EDT) | | From | <> | | Subject | Re: NODIRATIME...great work! |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Perry Harrington writes: > > I believe it was a Gooch hack? Great work people. I turned this on, and > > Yeah, I 'fess up. It was me. > > > my disk tree read speed was fscking fast!!! Now I can cache my entire > > mount tree and do a find without hearing any disk access. X loads > > faster, Netscape loads faster, this hack really kicks ass! > > > > Thanks, this was actually more noticable than the noatime patch. > > Nodiratime should be a functional subset of noatime. Using nodiratime > should not give any more performance (less disc activity) than > noatime.
I'de like to see this as the default setting! It helps performance, and I've never seen anyone who claimed to have a use for directory atimes.
Perhaps the person above tried noatime before the dcache was in the kernel, so this now seems faster.
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