#2854 NORM Untriag: Automounting of Flash Drives is using atime

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Thu Aug 16 16:21:11 EDT 2007


#2854: Automounting of Flash Drives is using atime
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 Reporter:  Ivo     |       Owner:  jg       
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro  |     Version:           
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0        
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 Since the recent builds (e.g. 539), the system now automounts flash
 drives, and that's good as it will help children manage their files much
 easier.

 What's not good, however, is to mount a flash drive without the noatime
 flag, as it's currently happening.  As I am sure most people know, flash
 media has support for a limited amount of writes, and when the system
 (through atime) writes to the media inodes every time a single file is
 accessed, it's another available write burned.

 Shouldn't be hard to fix.  I think it was more of a lapse than anything.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2854>
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