[Novalug] ext3 and noatime

[Mark Smith]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:39:55AM -0500, Ed T. Toton III wrote:
> It's useful to have in your bag of tricks since under most circumstances 
> it's causing completely unnecessary writes. The only other thing I can 
> think of might be some sort of queuing mechanism that tries to rely on the 
> filesystem instead of indexing, but I don't know of any specifically.
> 
> Using noatime and nodiratime is a good idea with flash-based storage as 
> well since it's the writes that cause wear and tear on those.

unfortunately for me, noatime doesn't exist in apple-land.  i have
an encrypted mounted disk image which i backup offsite and i'm
pretty sure the atime thing (or equivalent) is killing me.  every
time i do an ls or grep * or whatever, it causes all the inodes
(or equiv) to copy those disk blocks on the next sync off site.

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Mark Smith
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