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[Sheflug] Disabling Access Time

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Subject: [Sheflug] Disabling Access Time
From: Darrell Blake <darrell [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:24:27 +0100
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Wondering if someone can shed some light on this for me. What exactly is 
atime? Apparently you can gain a slight speed increase by disabling access 
time in /etc/fstab. My current line looks like..

/dev/hda7        /                reiserfs    defaults,noatime 1   1

I've been told that "hardcore" unix users will condemn this so I'm expecting a 
slight bad response but apparently the majority of users don't use atime and 
if you don't know what it does/is then it's pointless.

Darrell

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