On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:32 AM James <l...@xdrv.uk> wrote: > On 19/08/2021 23:58, Carl Brewer wrote: > > Further to this - is it worth disabling atime on the ZFS root pool > > that's on the SSDs? I don't imagine it's a lot of data, but it would add > > up over the years. > > Do you ever look at the access times? >
On some occasions, this is very useful - you can work out what software installed is actually in use, and it's a way of detecting unexpected things running. We turn it off at $WORK because of two things - we run pkg verify every night, which means the access times are meaningless because we read every file daily anyway, and we hold a lot of regular snapshots and the atime writes end up consuming a significant amount of snapshot space. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
