Doug McNaught wrote: > > Another thing you can do, that trades off Unix semantics for battery > efficiency, is to mount all your filesystems with the 'noatime' > option. If you don't do this, even reading a file that's in cache > will cause a disk write, to update the access time field of the > inode. There isn't much on a typical workstation that depends on > 'atime' being correct, so it's probably worth doing for laptops.
What exactly is 'not much'? :) > I got this off linux-kernel a while back and hadn't seen it mentioned > yet, so I thought I'd pipe up. Thanks for the suggestion. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
