Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Performance of ext3 on large systems | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:06:55 +0000 |
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commence Robert Love quotation:
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:29, John Bradford wrote: > >> > ext3 doesn't implement noatime!? Hurg... > > noatime is implemented. > >> Actually, it makes sense in a way - noatime only speeds up reads, not >> writes, (access time is always updated on a write), whereas a >> journaled filesystem is presumably intended to be tuned for write >> performance. So, for it's intended usage, not implementing noatime >> shouldn't be a huge problem, although it would be useful. > > But updating the access time _is_ a write, even if its due to a read. > And using 'noatime' does help, and it is implemented. I guess Andrew's > statement was just misinterpreted, because this is what he said.
Ah, yes. My bad.
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