[OLPC-devel] Flash devices and conventional file systems.

Arnd Bergmann arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com
Wed Aug 16 10:58:42 EDT 2006


On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:40, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Everyone using flash devices should remember to mount the file systems
> -noatime.  This tells the system not to update the file accessed time,
> which gets updated frequently and will help wear out your flash for
> little gain.

Is this, or should it be, set to noatime in the downloadable flash
images on http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development?
	
	Arnd <><



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