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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Compactflash cards dying?
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> > Bryan> You would be surprised how fast a million writes can happen on
> > Bryan> a disk.
> 
> especially if you don't mount with noatime.

noatime only suppresses access time updating on reads, writes still
update the access time.

John
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