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Author: d_pridge
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To: John Franklin, Alessandro Selli, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] noatime by default
Doesn't this affect the expected lifetime for an SSD?


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-------- Original message --------From: John Franklin <franklin@???> Date: 8/27/17 1:53 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???>, dng@??? Subject: Re: [DNG] noatime by default
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 16:14 +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 01:03:10 +0200
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > I'd like to recommend another improvement: let's make the installer
> > default
> > to noatime for fstab it creates.
>
>
>  I agree.


I don't.  Adding noatime by default will break some software that
relies on atime, in particular mutt and popcon.  Keeping relatime is
sufficient.

https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2009/03/27/relatime-recap/

jf
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