Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 14, 2003 09:57 PM
Every file read access in Linux does a disk write to store the last access time. This can be disables per partition with the noatime mount option. Excellent for busy web/e-mail/file servers. You should check, though, if some of your software doesn't depend on it (rare).
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Use the noatime option in /etc/fstab
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 14, 2003 09:57 PM#