Re: [Eug-lug] keeping atime current with kernel 2.6.30 (or later) on ext3 ? -- sometimes we don't want relatime

Wed, April 14, 2010 9:39:53 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] keeping atime current with kernel 2.6.30 (or later) on ext3 ? -- sometimes we don't want relatime Horst, your filesystem is probably mounted with the "noatime" or "relatime" mount option. Check /etc/fstab. Linux dist

Re: [Eug-lug] keeping atime current with kernel 2.6.30 (or later) on ext3 ? -- sometimes we don't want relatime

Horst, your filesystem is probably mounted with the "noatime" or "relatime" mount option. Check /etc/fstab. Linux distributions have been converting over to "noatime" for several years. The atime updates require significant disk bandwidth, and most software doesn't care. See the mount(8) man pag

[Eug-lug] keeping atime current with kernel 2.6.30 (or later) on ext3 ? -- sometimes we don't want relatime

kubuntu 9.10: I noticed that the atime is only updated the 1st time the file is read, subsequent reads don't change it.(unless the ctime has changed for some other, unrelated reason) After a reboot, another read changes it again, but only once. Generally, I found the atime information helpful, w