Re: selectively disabling atime updates?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:52:27PM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > Yes, but I have to question whether and why it would improve performance
> > in this case.  The stream of atime updates is still happening on the
> > underlying filesystem, and that is still where you will be doing almost
> > all of your reads from.
>
> My intent was to mount the snapshot ro,noatime and operate on that.
> Am I again missing something stupid?

Hm.  No, I don't think so.  I wonder -- will the snapshot management code
cause the resulting snapshot to be in a consistent state so access through
the filesystem is safe?

Thor