On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:29, John Bradford wrote:
> > ext3 doesn't implement noatime!? Hurg...
noatime is implemented.
> Actually, it makes sense in a way - noatime only speeds up reads, not
> writes, (access time is always updated on a write), whereas a
> journaled filesystem is presumably intended to be tuned for write
> performance. So, for it's intended usage, not implementing noatime
> shouldn't be a huge problem, although it would be useful.
But updating the access time _is_ a write, even if its due to a read.
And using 'noatime' does help, and it is implemented. I guess Andrew's
statement was just misinterpreted, because this is what he said.
Robert Love
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