Disabling atime updates...

[Bill Moran]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm plan to disable atime updates in some Web + MySQL servers (to get a 
> bit more performance, even if insignificant).
> 
> Is there any OS, Apache or MySQL feature that would be affected by 
> setting noatime in fstab? ( I couldn't find any reference, even man 8 
> mount says it's hardly ever used)

I think you've got a greenlight here.  I've seen lots of people use
noatime, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble.  I'm sort of
surprised that noatime isn't the default ...

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Bill Moran
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