<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Jim Kronebusch wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20071005200731.M24354@winonacotter.org" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Add the noatime mount option to your drive partitions (or md devices) in /etc/fstab I don't think schools are so concerned about security that we need to know when each file is accessed. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I believe I have asked you this before, but I forgot. This setting only needs to be used on a client mounting via nfs, correct? So this won't really help the thin clients, but can help other systems mounting /home per say via nfs? thanks Jim </pre> </blockquote> Just checked out the man page for mount. Doesn't appear to be specific to NFS, so it looks like it'd help speed things up regardless. --TP </body> </html>