>One big thing is to make sure atime is disabled, a massively brain dead feature inherited from 1980s Unix that writes to the disk every time you read from a fi

>One big thing is to make sure atime is disabled, a massively brain dead feature inherited from 1980s Unix that writes to the disk every time you read from a file. That's not a fair criticism of the atime feature. There are lots of use cases where it is desirable.