On Thursday 27 May 2010 11:13:29 Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Looked into file system optimization again, while waiting for a backup to
> finish. Seems like "noatime" is a recommended setting in /etc/fstab. If I
> already have "defaults" set for the backup-array mount, and add "noatime",
> should I still keep "defaults"? Or is it implied that the defaults are not
> to be used anymore and therefore one can omit it in /etc/fstab?
> 
> My file system-fu is not that strong... 8-/

Replace "defaults" with "noatime" or better, "noatime,nodiratime".

Then just remount, you don't need to reboot:

mount -o remount /

Replace / with the appropriate filesystem. I have a separate /var and 
/var/local for backuppc.

Regards,
Tyler

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