noatime and nodiratime for ubifs mounting

twebb taliaferro62 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 09:10:42 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'?
>

Sorry to ask again, but does no "atime" support mean no "diratime"
either for UBIFS?



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