>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tyler J. Wagner [mailto:tyler AT tolaris DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:00 PM
>To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net; sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT 
>se
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups
>
>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.

Thanks. Just what I suspected. 

Nodiratime is new to me though. I can't say I've come upon it before. I'll
try it at home first. 8-)

-- 
/Sorin

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