If your applications do not depend on having the correct access time for files, you can disable the update of access time (atime) on an inode when a file is read.
Consider setting the
no_atime_update
option to
on
to prevent updates
if your storage system has extremely high read traffic—for example, on a news server used by an Internet provider—because it prevents inode updates from contending with reads from other files.
Attention: If you are not sure whether your storage system should maintain an accurate access time on inodes, leave this option set at its default, off, so that the access time is updated.
