On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 02:09:44PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'd like to reduce the wear-and-tear on my SSDs and eliminate the > unnecessary metadata writes on my backup media that only slow down > the backup process. So I want to add noatime to all my mounts. Is > there any downside to this? > > At one time I remember atime being useful for tmpwatch, which > removes files in /tmp that haven't been accessed in a week or two. > But I can live without that feature. relatime has been the default for a long time -- that only updates atime once per some reasonable timeperiod. The wear and tear from that is negligible and you can still get a basic idea of when files where accessed. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader