Sunday, December 01, 2019

Re: Softdep and noatime

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:10:37 +0100
Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 06:12:42AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> [...]
> > On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
> > number of disk writes?
> [...]
>
> I wonder what other will say about this, but I mount everything as
> noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume this may
> make lifetime a bit longer and decided it is better to be on safe(r)
> side.
>

I mount everything noatime because I don't care at all about access
time, I care about modification time.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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