Re: Linux noatime mount option

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Jeffrey Borg wrote:
>
> > > A unrelated preformance note to all Linux users: Make sure the cache
> > > disks is mounted with the noatime option.
> >
> > On this note how do you mount a disk with that option?
>
> Read the mount manpage (man mount).
>
> >From my /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hdb3 /cache1 ext2 noatime 0 2
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordström
> Sparetime Squid Hacker

A couple of notes, which may be obvious to everyone else, but took us a
bit to figure out:

1) You must be running a fairly recent kernel (>= 2.0.31, I think). We're
using 2.0.33.

2) You need a fairly new version of mount. We're using mount-2.7l but I
have been told that 2.6g was the first to include it. The standard debian
installation uses mount-2.6d which does NOT include the noatime option.

Kevin

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