flash drives and noatime mount option

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:51:50PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I have noticed that Ubuntu 8.04 is not mounting my MuVo v100 with the
> noatime option by default. Is this a problem, or is noatime no longer
> needed for mounting flash drives? If it is still needed, where do I
> need to add this option and do I need to try to set it for each flash
> disk that I have?

'noatime' is not needed for VFAT-formatted flash drives, which is the
most common configuration.

If you've reformatted a flash drive as ext2/ext3, then noatime (or
relatime) would be useful.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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