Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:51:34 +0000 From: "Nia Alarie" <n...@netbsd.org> Message-ID: <20201024105134.6539bf...@cvs.netbsd.org>
| 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). 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