Saturday, November 30, 2019

Re: Softdep and noatime

Hello,

david.raymond@nmt.edu (Raymond, David), 2019.11.30 (Sat) 14:12 (CET):
> I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
>
> Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding file access, but it
> is not the default. Are there any downsides in using softdep?
>
> On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
> number of disk writes?

The most recent thread on that topic that I could find:

https://marc.info/?t=151811826800005

Marcus

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