On 03/12/2011 06:37 AM, Kumaran R wrote: > Hi, > > > > Even on a HDD, according to Linus himself, noatime is a good fs option. > As a rule, in my all my linux boxes, I edit fstab in such a way, all my > partitions, except swap have the noatime option. I also include, two RAM > Drives, /tmp and /var/tmp. This is because data in both the partitions, don't > need to be stored after a restart.
This is no longer necessary atleast in distributions like Fedora which ship with relatime by default and I believe it is the upstream kernel default in recent versions as well. Relatime updates access time once per day or in a batch instead of everytime a file is accessed taking away the extra latency while not losing the access timestamp feature. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
