Is it save to mount / with noatime?

Misha Shnurapet shnurapet at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 19 13:47:37 UTC 2011


19.10.2011, 18:43, "Alan Cox" <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:55:28 +0200
> Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Is it save to mount "/" with the noatime flag, or are there still
>>  packages which depend on an accurate access time?
>
> Current kernels support a much better algorithm anyway. Look up 'relatime'

And what about "nodiratime"?

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