On Sun, May 08, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?": > One of the bad things is that standard *NIX files systems are designed > with magnetic media in mind, they update the access time of files > every time you open them. This is bad for files that are opened often. > > The way around this is to mount a file system read only. Using a
Instead of mounting with the "ro" (read-only) option, a better option to use would be "noatime", which disables just the updating of access-time. See also the "nodiratime", "relatime". These options are explained in mount(8). -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, May 8 2011, 4 Iyyar 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Happiness isn't getting what you want, http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's wanting what you've got. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
