On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 02:07, Theodore Ts'o wrote: <snip> > Mounting your filesystems with noatime is a good start; this > prevents read accesses to files from causing the last accessed time > from being updated, which is a cause of many disk writes. Do you do this routinely, for both AC & battery operation? Or do you remount with this parameter only when heading off the mains power? There's a lot going on in the system, and I'm new at this, so I wonder about potential inconsistencies. Are there any concerns, or is this quite transparent? I assume you've thought (and/or experienced) your way through these issues. Bret
