high cpu usage using nftl for DOC2000

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Oct 8 06:22:52 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:16 +0800, Selwyn Tang wrote:
> I will try my best to do that later.

Thanks.

> What do you mean by -onoatime? Should I change "defaults" to "noatime"?

man 8 mount

       noatime
              Access timestamps are not updated when a file is read.
 
With atime enabled, every _read_ of a file or directory causes a write
to the flash, because the 'access timestamp' is updated.

On flash, this is a Bad Thing(tm).

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dwmw2




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