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[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:40:20PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>Hi -
>
>On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:52:23PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>: [...]
>: GNU tar is far less sensitive to filesystem activity than dump for
>: backups.  However, it touches the access time of every file, unless
>: given --atime-preserve, in which case it modifies ``only'' the the
>: inode mod time, when setting the atime back to its original value.
>
>Then consider mounting the various file systems with the "noatime"
>mount option; it cuts down on disk traffic, and eliminates this
>particular problem.

Most of the filesystems are already mounted this way.

cgf