On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:11:05AM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote: > On Jan 19, 3:23pm, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > } Subject: Re: Very slow transfers to/from micro SD card on a RPi B+ > } Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:52:33 +0100 > } From: Stephan <stephan...@googlemail.com> > } > } A way to circumvent these hangs is to remount the filesystem with noatim= > } e. > } > } Maybe we should make noatime the default... I have mounted all my > } file systems with noatime for many years, and never regretted it. > > Hello. No, I wouldn't like to see this as the default. I've used the > access times on filesystems too many times as a diagnostic tool to be happy > with noatime as the default. I too have turned noatime on for my > workstations, but i want it on on servers, and there are times I've > regretted my choice on my workstations as well. > > I might be more inclined to soften my preference if there is a way to > tell if a particular filesystem is on removable media, i.e. an SD card or > portable disk. For those devices, I think noatime would be a fine default. > > -thanks > -Brian
I wouldn't want it as a default for everything either, it breaks things like xbiff. the linux "relatime" thing seems like a reasonable compromise. -Chuck
