| brent timothy saner on 19 Mar 2008 19:45:27 -0700 |
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JP Vossen wrote: > I read someplace that you can reduce wear and tear on hard drives by > including noatime in the mount options. I already do this for the one > system I have using a CF card, but I was wondering about it just in general. > > I have several servers that rsync themselves various places for backups. > That means that every time I rsync the entire filesystem, a gazillion > atimes are being updated for essentially no reason. Ditto for the > s/locate indexer. I can't recall ever using an atime for anything > (ctime and mtime yes, atime no). > > Can anyone give me a good reason not to do this on some/all of my > machines? All of my machines are ext3, some have H/W EIDE RAID, others > have software (MDM) mirroring, some are just plain old hard drives, if > it matters. Most are Debian or Ubuntu but I have a couple of CentOS4 > boxes too. And what about for machines in a VM? > it is in my general opinion that for most contexts, atime is absolutely useless. i'd venture that it really doesn't offer much a benefit (and yes, it DOES do more wear-and-tear). two things, though. 1. please please PLEASE don't use ext3 with CF, use ext2 or fat (and please don't use fat. it's useless). all that journaling can potentially kill your storage if you're using CF. 2. another really smart idea is to mount /var/log, /var/tmp, and /tmp (and more as you see fit) as ramdisks. you can do this by adding the following to fstab: tmpfs /var/tmp none defaults 0 0 tmpfs /var/log none defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp none defaults 0 0 of course, edit to your liking. hope this helped :) -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org Bill Gates is to hacking as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols: no talent, everyone hates him, and he's just in it for the fame and money. GPG INFO: pub 1024D/832D950A 2008-01-26 uid Brent Timothy Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> uid Brent Timothy Saner (ACE Technology Group, www.acetechgroup.com) <sanerb@acetechgroup.com> sub 4096g/1C18F61D 2008-01-26 (pgp.mit.edu) FINGERPRINT: 91EC 3B91 17E3 84E8 662A 9911 F2ED 9987 832D 950A Attachment:
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