On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To me it still boggles the mind that noatime should actually slow down
> activities on ANY file-system ... has someone got an explanation for
> that kind of behaviour?  As far as I'm concerned this means that even
> to any read I'll add the overhead of a write - most likely in a disk-location
> slightly off of the position that I read the data ... how would that speed
> the process up on average?

noatime turns off the atime write behaviour.  Or did you already know
that and I missed some weird post where noatime somehow managed to
slow down performance?

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