Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime

Dec 18, 2008, 07:33 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Falko Timme)

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"Linux has a special mount option for file systems called noatime. If this option is set for a file system in /etc/fstab, then reading accesses will no longer cause the atime information (last access time - don't mix this up with the last modified time - if a file is changed, the modification date will still be set) that is associated with a file to be updated (in reverse this means that if noatime is not set, each read access will also result in a write operation)."

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