Who is writing in the disks?

[Alan Peery]

Carlos H. Reimer wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> The iostat is showing that some one is writing in disks sda and sdb 
> but it should not happen as almost all the requests from the system 
> should be queries and not updates.
You may be seeing access time updates depending on what sort of disk READING activity.  Take a look at the "noatime" option for mount.  (man 8 mount).

Alan

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