Re: To noatime or not?

On 11/03/2011, at 03:02 , Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Have we ever gotten a consensus verdict on whether noatime should be set for SSDs or not?

I'm firmly on the "who cares about atime" side of the debate. I don't use mutt on a system running a mail spool, so I see no benefit in using atime. I don't even have "relatime" enabled on systems which support it.

Some discussion from Linux folks here: http://www.kerneltrap.org/node/14148

Ingo Molnar is reported to have said:
> It's also perhaps the most stupid Unix design idea of all times. Unix is really nice and well done, but think about this a bit: 'For every file that is read from the disk, lets do a ... write to the disk! And, for every file that is already cached and which we read from the cache ... do a write to the disk!'

Hope this helps,
Alex