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Re: noatime

To: AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: noatime
From: Edmund White <ewwhite@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:12:16 -0600 (CST)
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Can anybody tell me if the "noatime" flag can be used when mounting xfs 
> partitions under Linux? Is "noatime" the default? Do you have to specify it? 
> Is it 
> irrelevant? Or will it get me into trouble? From what I remember from the xfs 
> documentation, "noatime" wasn't mentioned. But maybe I'm not remembering 
> correctly. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for the answer.
> 
> Andy Liebman
> 
> 

I'm not sure if noatime is the default. I do mount my filesystems as 
"noatime" and "nodiratime". I use the tuning methods described at:

Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs10.html

My /etc/fstab entries look like this:

LABEL=/usr      /usr    xfs     noatime,nodiratime 1 2


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Edmund William White
http://www.djedwhite.com
ewwhite@xxxxxxx


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