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Old 07-08-2012, 04:35 PM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by Brujah View Post
Relatime is a good choice, which I believe is maintained by Igor Molnar. My servers have always been relatime mounted for the past few years now, so maybe it's already a default on several hosts or certain distros?

I believe relatime is in fact the default for several distros and was created by Molnar in this famous thread:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

relatime is a good default when you don't know the workload. If you know that tmpwatch and mail are set up to work without atimes, noatime performs better.
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