On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hugo S.Carrer wrote: [snip] > > Also you can mount with option noatime to reduce writes > > (atime updating means you have a write for every read!). > > Doesn't this option reduce the recovery capability of the FS? I don't see why it would. All you're doing is _not_ writing the extra couple of bytes ( access time ) to each file's metadata every time you read/open it.