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    SubjectRe: Performance of ext3 on large systems
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    On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:29, John Bradford wrote:

    > > ext3 doesn't implement noatime!? Hurg...

    noatime is implemented.

    > Actually, it makes sense in a way - noatime only speeds up reads, not
    > writes, (access time is always updated on a write), whereas a
    > journaled filesystem is presumably intended to be tuned for write
    > performance. So, for it's intended usage, not implementing noatime
    > shouldn't be a huge problem, although it would be useful.

    But updating the access time _is_ a write, even if its due to a read.
    And using 'noatime' does help, and it is implemented. I guess Andrew's
    statement was just misinterpreted, because this is what he said.

    Robert Love

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