On 11/03/2011, at 03:02 , Neil Laubenthal wrote: > Have we ever gotten a consensus verdict on whether noatime should be set for > SSDs or not?
I'm firmly on the "who cares about atime" side of the debate. I don't use mutt on a system running a mail spool, so I see no benefit in using atime. I don't even have "relatime" enabled on systems which support it. Some discussion from Linux folks here: http://www.kerneltrap.org/node/14148 Ingo Molnar is reported to have said: > It's also perhaps the most stupid Unix design idea of all times. Unix is > really nice and well done, but think about this a bit: 'For every file that > is read from the disk, lets do a ... write to the disk! And, for every file > that is already cached and which we read from the cache ... do a write to the > disk!' Hope this helps, Alex _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
