Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/mount

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:51:34 +0000
    From:        "Nia Alarie" <nia%netbsd.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20201024105134.6539BFB28%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>

  | 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