On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:07:48AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Sjoerd,
> > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > Just uploaded hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 to testing-proposed-updates. This removes > > > the sync option from the default setup and adds a warning to the example > > > fdi config file. > > > Please approve for Sarge. > > If I'm reading right, this change also disables the noatime setting that was > > previously enabled for small drives. Wouldn't we want that to stay enabled? > I don't really think that enabling or disabling atime makes a big difference > with respect to media wear when sync is turned off. For the common case, vfat > filesystem on flash disks, there is only diratime. And nodiratime is default > for vfat (thanks to Martin for testing) anyway. > I can upload a new version, with atime enabled again (It's only a little > change). But as said, i don't think it matters a lot. Fair enough. I've approved this version of hal to go in, and I'll just take the filesystem hit on my ext3 keychain. ;) Don't forget to make this change for the etch branch as well. :) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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