** Summary changed: - ext3 partitions should be mounted with noatime or relatime + ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime
** Description changed: ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime for everyone to reduce - unnessary disk activity and increase performance (reading from disk or - cache means writing to disk to update atime). Maybe ext3 partitions - should even be mounted with noatime for laptop users to prevent - unnecessary disk-activity when the head is parked or the drive is spun - down. + unnessary disk activity,prevent useless unparking for laptop users and + increase performance (reading from disk or cache means writing to disk + to update atime). More information : http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/ http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 - This might be one of the contributors to the famous Load_Cycle_Count bug : + a related bug asking to support relatime : + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/145332 + + A relevant comment by Bart Samwell (maintainer of laptop-mode-tools and acpi-support in Debian) : + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/17216/comments/83 + + according to http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=46274&forum=11&post_id=213572 + Fedora Core 8 will use relatime for all mounts. + + This bug might be one of the contributors to the famous Load_Cycle_Count bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/17216 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 -- ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
