On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > I am aware that mounting filesystems with noatime option greatly > increases speed. > > I have tried to follow discussion on the pros and cons of using noatime. > > I have however not been able to mount with the option relatime in centos 5.2. The relatime option seems to have some issue at this moment: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079698.html The patch was offered by a forum user and it was proposed to be included in the centosplus kernel. However, that did not work out. All the details are here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3956 Akemi