** Description changed: - ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime for everyone to reduce - unnessary disk activity,prevent useless unparking for laptop users and - increase performance (reading from disk or cache means writing to disk - to update atime). + ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime/noatime for everyone to + reduce unnessary disk activity,prevent useless unparking of harddisk + heads 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 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
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