On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, Eric Huff wrote: > > I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I > > could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that > > specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. > > > Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It keeps the > file access time from being updated. > Do any programs rely on that? > > I'll give this a try, too, i think. > > eric
Eric from what I've seen and also from Hans' own mouth with the current version of Rieserfs it's the preferred method. Where as not using this is intended to give a faster access time you really have to play around tuning the fs to keep from going nuts. Hans said at a recent lug where he spoke that the next version should do this much more elegantly (I took this to mean it wouldn't drive people nuts.) In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. James
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