On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:38:04PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > | file systems that are used as what spools? > > Ah, youth! > > The old text: > This option is useful for optimizing read performance on file systems > that are used as news spools. > was refering to netnews (usenet, NNTP or whatever).
Don't worry, I know about usenet. I just think it's a particularly obscure use case today, even for netbsd! > Such a filesystem is almost certainly not going to care about access times > (this is about uses for the noatime flag, to save others needing to go look > at what changed) as the news articles are referenced by large numbers of > news readers, and outgoing feeds, and when any of that happened is of no > interest to the server or its maintainers, at all - but it happens (or > happened, when usenet was a big thing) a lot, and not bothering to update > the access times could mean a lot of unnecessary writes to an already very > busy filesystem. > > All that said, note that I am not objecting to the change (referring to > flash based filesystems rather than news spools) it is a little more > currently relevant. > > kre Thanks for the background information.
