Keeping disks busy

Keeping disks busy

Posted Sep 27, 2002 18:47 UTC (Fri) by steveha (guest, #3876)
In reply to: Keeping disks busy by aglet
Parent article: Keeping disks busy

Have you looked into "noatime"? By default, the disk system keeps track of when you access files -- reading a file is accessing it, so reading a file results in a write to update the access time. If you add the "noatime" option to your /etc/fstab file (where the filesystem mounting options are specified) it will cut down your disk writes.

steveha

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