noatime and nodiratime for ubifs mounting

twebb taliaferro62 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 10:02:22 EST 2010


>> To minimize unnecessary writes to UBIFS, does it make sense to mount
>> with the noatime and nodiratime flags?  Some information I've read
>> suggests that this helps minimize writes and is beneficial to
>> flash-based filesystems.  Is there any downside to using these flags?
>
> UBIFS does not support atime anyway:
>
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_atime
>

Thanks.  Sorry, I hadn't seen that specific question.

Does that mean UBIFS also doesn't support 'diratime'?



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