> On Aug 30, 2018, at 10:21 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It turns out the system I found this on was.... mounted noatime, just
> like the install image does by default. I had not set up tmpfs, even
> though I usually do.
>
> Adding a tmpfs makes the test pass.
>
> Also, when I said lockup, what really happened was that the system was
> running but the usb wifi interface wedged:
>
> Aug 30 11:00:20 rpi3 /netbsd: urtwn0: timeout waiting for firmware readiness
I see this all the bloody time on my RPI, and it drives me batty.
> obviously noatime is about not breaking uSD cards, but I wonder if
> that's still necessary with modern cards?
Yes.
> the rpi3 image seems to default to noatime, and I wonder if that
> should continue to be, given the balance of saving wear and oddness
Honestly, atime is one of the dumbest file attributes there is. Personally, I
think we should be defaulting to noatime unless running some sort of
conformance test.
-- thorpej
