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Re: what happens if your mountpoint looks like this?:

To: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: what happens if your mountpoint looks like this?:
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 14 May 2002 16:22:55 -0500
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:19, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> Without rebooting, is there a way to change that? I did a remount, with
> the all the options, and the only one duplicated, was logbufs. (so rw
> and noatime were not). Doing the mount again though, does not append
> another logbufs, so it continues to look like the below, even when
> remounting again.

I do not think noatime will have any affect on the filesystem unless
you get it in there on the initial mount - difficult on the root I know.
As for the logbufs thing, the string of what is in the mount options
reported by the kernel has nothing to do with xfs itself, it is all
done with smoke and mirrors in the vfs layer.

Steve

> 
> TIA.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:15, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:10, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > > I hear *noatime* is good for performance, but what about the
> > double
> > > logbufs? Will that screw things up, or *help* performance as
> > > well?(potentially?)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > /dev/sda5 on / type xfs (rw,noatime,logbufs=8,logbufs=8)
> > 
> > hi Austin - I think that specifying logbufs=8 twice will simply set
> > that
> > variable to "8" two times during mount... which will infinitesimally
> > slow down your mount performance, and leave subsequent performance
> > unchanged.  :)
> > 
> > -Eric
> > 
> > -- 
> > Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> > sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.
> -- 
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-698-7250
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and 
> try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. 
> But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will 
> reduce the danger by half."
> Sir Winston Churchill
-- 

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Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx


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