On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

:  > Ummh ..good hint!
:  >
:  > But ,can soft dep improve read performance from 11 to 21MB/s?
:
: Certainly -- the "atime" update doesn't have to happen synchronously.

And for disks which don't have mail spools or other programs that rely on
atime, there's a "noatime" mount option, too.

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