Re: Compactflash cards dying?

John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:30:32 +0000 (GMT)


> > Bryan> You would be surprised how fast a million writes can happen on
> > Bryan> a disk.
>
> especially if you don't mount with noatime.

noatime only suppresses access time updating on reads, writes still
update the access time.

John
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