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Subject: noatime and nodiratime for ubifs mounting
From: twebb <taliaferro62@gmail.com>
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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?

Thanks,
twebb