On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:02:18 +0300 geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. You can stop this with noatime in the fstab. It's something I do whenever I set up a new install. > The way around this is to mount a file system read only. Using a > compressed read only file system, such as that on a "live" CD works > well in this case. The problem with it is that you can't > add software or change settings. You don't need to mount the fs r/o to use noatime. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
