Subject: Re: swap-on-FLASH urban legend
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Kenneth R. Mort <ken@post3.mort.net>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/17/2003 18:23:05
Thanks, I missed that.

> 
>    krm> CF had a limited (although large) number of re-writes. . . .
>    krm> I was wondering about i-nodes
> 
> That is why we were saying to use noatime and nodevmtime mount
> options.  With noatime inodes supposedly don't need updating just
> because you read a file to update the 'last accessed' time, but
> 'finger's mail-last-read feechur stops working.  nodevmtime prevents
> 'finger' from reporting idle times, but the mtime of ttys doesn't have
> to be updated every time you type a letter.  though maybe /dev should
> just be an mfs like on the sysinst root, that's not what i do yet.
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