Re: NODIRATIME...great work!

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:20:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:

> I believe it was a Gooch hack? Great work people. I turned this on, and
> my disk tree read speed was fscking fast!!! Now I can cache my entire
> mount tree and do a find without hearing any disk access. X loads
> faster, Netscape loads faster, this hack really kicks ass!
>
> Thanks, this was actually more noticable than the noatime patch.

Sorry for being clueless on this one, but...

What exactly is this patch?
What does it do?
Will it run on 2.0.3x?
Where can I get it?
Are there any known problems?

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