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Also: a lot of OS distributions aimed at SBCs with microSD storage forgetting to set noatime/relatime on their file systems, to avoid thousands upon thousands o
by daneel_w 4y ago
Also: a lot of OS distributions aimed at SBCs with microSD storage forgetting to set noatime/relatime on their file systems, to avoid thousands upon thousands of writes for access time updates whenever files are read. It's only just recently that OS vendors finally woke up and realized what was going on.
- megous 4y agorelatime is default option since forever. (certainly since before rpi was even a thing) https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.30/source/fs/namespace.c#L1936 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.30/source/fs/namespace... (some random old kernel)
- daneel_w 4y agoThat's good info and news to me. "relatime" is unfortunately a silent killer as well, albeit nowhere near as intense as "strictatime".