On 11.03.17 16:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2017 12:02:36 dragon wrote: > > > I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, > > especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus > > the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the cards were > > designed for... photos and videos. You can also run a flash file > > system instead of ext4 if you like. Checking that noatime is set for > > the filesystem would have a far greater effect than all of the writes > > that you will ever do in daily use. While true at one time, this whole > > wearing out flash storage thing is almost a non issue for use cases > > like this nowdays. > > > How do I check that, and with the rube goldberg's hired hand boot configs > used on the pi, how would I set the noatime option?
AIUI, as relatime has long been the default (since kernel 2.6.30), you don't really need to do anything. Given that relatime only updates the access time if the previous access time was earlier than the current change time, there'll be slightly more writes than with noatime, but a lot less than with neither - and noatime breaks applications like mutt. If you do want to change it, then in /etc/fstab, add noatime to the comma-separated options in column 4. Before the relatime kernel default change, that was said to give a 10% performance boost. It shouldn't do anything noticeable now, I figure. If there's more recent info than that, it'd be interesting to hear. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
