Disabling atime

[Eric Sandeen]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On 8/21/07, *Eric Sandeen* <esandeen at redhat.com
> <mailto:esandeen at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     [root at bear-05 ~]# for I in `seq 1 10`; do mount -o noatime /dev/sdb12
>     /mnt/test; time find /mnt/test > /dev/null; umount /dev/sdb12; done
> 
> 
> Hmm.  If you do the find so quickly after the mount, isn't it possible
> that the kernel is still reading in some metadata structures
> asynchronously, or checking the journal, etc?
> 
> 

Nope, things like journal replay are done before the filesystem becomes
available for use.

-Eric