[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[Behdad Esfahbod]

noatime means: don't write back access times.  usually when you
access a file (open...), the atime field of the file's inode is
updated to show the last access time.  this means you get things
to write back for any file that is opened.  disabling that helps
in getting spindown.

So, simply pass noatime to all your hard disk partitions.

b

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Stephan Herhut wrote:

> Buchan Milne wrote:
>
> > BTW, Mandrake 9.2 includes this patch (not enabled by default of
> > course), and if installation detects a laptop, noatime is set (at least
> > on ext3.
>
> So, I tried noasync, which isnt an allowed option, thenm dirsync. Maybe
> I should try noatime as well. Can anyone please explain to me, what
> those flags mean, as I haven found any recent documentation for that.
>
> Or has anyone the laptop mode and harddisk spindown working and can show
> me his /etc/fstab?
>
> Thank you
> Stephan
>
>