Are there any issues with using noatime flag for mount points?

MichaelRHMW

• November 16, 2020 22:09

Hi There, Just wondering if there are any known issues with using the noatime flag for mounting via fstab? Has anyone done this? Did it provide any measurable benefit? Did it cause any issues? Thanks.

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  cPanelAaronH

  • November 18, 2020 03:23

  Hello, From a quick bit of research, this sounds like there is no major issue, only 'mutt' an email client that relied on atime.

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  MichaelRHMW

  • November 18, 2020 03:39

  Hi Aaron, Thanks, I haven't been able to find much in the way of it working or not working in cPanel. I did find an old thread, that never appeared to have gotten an answer, do you know if there are any issues caused by this flag (as per ) Thanks.

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  cPanelAaronH

  • November 18, 2020 04:08

  Hey there, Most people do not configure this since it is not the default. Our tuning guide filesystem linked below does recommend its use.

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  ffeingol

  • November 18, 2020 11:10

  We have done this in the past on /tmp file systems (for example) as it aided some backup software that we used to use. No side effects other than it sped up the backup software.

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  MichaelRHMW

  • November 25, 2020 20:50

  Thanks all, So far no issues.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • November 27, 2020 15:04

  Glad to hear it's working well so far!

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