Thumbdrive/vfat and noatime.

["Nils O." Selåsdal <nos utel no>]

I just got one of those USB thumbdrives, and was pleased to see
that Fedora discovered it, made /mnt/flash/ and and entry in /etc/fstab.
However, reading some about the thumbdrive, it seems to have a limited
lifetime(quite a few thousands writes though). Which makes me want to
mount it with -o noatime -so it doesn't get unneeded writes- 
(and actually sync also..). 

Shouldn't Fedora make such devices noatime by default ?
(If not, how do I add options that's automatically added to
/etc/fstab/ ?)

It's also a vfat filesystem on the device. Why isn't noatime 
the default for mounting fat/vfat.. ? It seems atime actually updates
the creation/modification time on fat filesystems anyway. Default
noatime makes sense for mount.vfat !?

.. comments ?

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Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s

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