Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doug McNaught wrote: > > > > Another thing you can do, that trades off Unix semantics for battery > > efficiency, is to mount all your filesystems with the 'noatime' > > option. If you don't do this, even reading a file that's in cache > > will cause a disk write, to update the access time field of the > > inode. There isn't much on a typical workstation that depends on > > 'atime' being correct, so it's probably worth doing for laptops. > > What exactly is 'not much'? :)
I can't think of anything offhand. Several people on l-k reported using it with no problems, so it's worth a try. -Doug
