Thanks for your reply Peter :) (Gonna go reading the man pages :D ) R.
-- Ronny Machado C. IT Consultant HP-UX Certified Systems Administrator Oracle Linux Certified Implementation Specialist https://sysops.cl +56 9 7519 9262 On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:19:26AM -0300, Ronny Machado wrote: > > > > I've seen that kind of statement on any laptop install tutorial...but I > > wonder (No benchmark done in any case). Is it really necesary on nvme > > disks? One of my laptops has an nvme and it seems faster than others I > > have with SSD...until I put softdep and noatime on fstab and > > remount, again, this is a "perception" thing, no benchmark to back it up... > > Could anyone advice on that issue? Are softdep and noatime necessary? > > On a modern laptop with resonable specs I would be surprised you would > be able to tell the difference with or without noatime. > > For softdep, man mount has this to say: > > softdep Mount an FFS file system using soft dependencies. > This option is only supported for compatibility and > has no effect on OpenBSD. > > so that would be definitely skippable. I forget just when it was > made into a no-op on OpenBSD, but I think it's been like that for > at least a couple of releases. > > Other followups from people with slightly less rapid-refresh memory > than myself may even provide the exact commit. > > - Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. >
