From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: mounting /var/lib/nfs with noatime or relatime ? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:48:58 -0400 Message-ID: <1250772539.5352.20.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <4A8CF6C8.1050400@aixigo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Harald Dunkel Return-path: Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:44169 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754370AbZHTMtA (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:49:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A8CF6C8.1050400@aixigo.de> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:10 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > NFS stores some small files in /var/lib/nfs, AFAICS. > Can it cause any problems for the NFService, if /var is > mounted with "relatime" or "noatime"? Does it increase > NFS performance at all? "relatime" and "noatime" shouldn't really affect NFS much. The files in /var/lib/nfs are created and destroyed all the time by the statd daemon, but the only time they are actually read is at boot time. Cheers Trond