noatime and nodiratime for ubifs mounting

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 09:21:23 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 09:10 -0500, twebb wrote:
> >>> 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'?
> >
> 
> Sorry to ask again, but does no "atime" support mean no "diratime"
> either for UBIFS?

Yes, obviously.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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