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Subject: Re: noatime and nodiratime for ubifs mounting
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On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:33 -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

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)