Hi Michael, > On the back of a Slashdot article, I read this set of LKML postings: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 > > Maybe 64 Studio should be setting noatime,nodiratime by default on ext3 > filesystems? Thanks for the tip! It looks interesting, has anyone tried using noatime or relatime on a 64 Studio system? Cheers! Daniel